Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morley went to college at Haverford, Pennsylvania, and later spent three years in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Since then he has worked in publishing houses and on various metropolitan newspapers. A few years ago, he retired to give more of his time to writing...
Addressing his audience on "The Unique Character of American Education". Dr. O. H. Judd, Director of the School of Education at Chicago University, psychologist and scholar in education, delivered the Inglis Lecture on secondary education last night in Emerson Hall. Pointing out three distinct differences in American and European educational systems. Dr. Judd stated that he felt that the secondary schools in America had been unfairly criticised by European scholars...
...Morley is a graduate of Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He went to New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar for three years with A. P. Herbert, editor of Punch, and after his return to America he joined Doubleday, Page, and Co. At this time he also wrote for Philadelphia and New York papers. Journalism later attracted him from publishing, and his column, the "Bowling Green", in the New York Evening Post, was a feature of metropolitan newspapers...
...Scholars shall, at Sunset in the evening preceding the Lord's Day, retire to their chambers, and not unnecessarily leave them; and all disorders on said evenings shall be punished as violations of the Sabbath are. And every Scholar, on the Lord's Day, shall carefully apply himself to the Duties of Religion and Piety. And whosoever shall profane said Day by unnecessary Business or Visiting, Walking on the Common, or in the Streets or Fields in the town of Cambridge, or by any sort of Diversion before sunset shall be fined 10 shillings...
Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania (less picturesque and well known than Marshal Pulsudski) was the first prime minister of his country (1918), and has represented Lithuania at almost every important international conference since. A scholar, a brilliant speaker commanding ten languages, he bases his political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively...