Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Addressing his audience on "The Unique Character of American Secondary Education." Dr. C. H. Judd, Director of the School of Education at Chicago University, noted psychologist and scholar in education, will deliver the Inglis Lecture in Secondary Education on Wednesday evening, December 14, at 8 o'clock, in Emerson Hall. The lecture will be open to the public...
...establishing the lectureship in honor of the later Professor Alexander Inglis, a former member of the University faculty, and who until his death was a leading scholar and writer in the field of secondary education. The Harvard Graduate School of Education seeks to stimulate thinking and experiment in the field to which Professor Inglis devoled his life work...
...grubbing process is not made easier by the professor in charge. An excellent scholar himself, he can wander on and on in total oblivion, which is shared by most of the people in the room...
...Cleveland torch was Abraham A. Katz, scholar. No rabbi, he knows the windings of Talmudic law expertly. No philologist, he knows the Semitic dialects. Once he decided to memorize every word and its definition in Webster's 2,373-page Dictionary. He succeeded through several letters, until necessity forced him to earn a living. He became an expert accountant, then auditor. He saved money and invested it. Soon he had his competence. He could return to his books...
...York has summoned from Colgate University a scholar whose specialty is the study of noise, to tell its inhabitants the worst about their city streets and subways. He finds that the streets of New York are less noisy than those of Chicago, whether because silent powder is not used in Chicago guns he does not say; but the roar of the New York subways, equal to that of an airplane motor in the protected ears of an aviator, exposes New Yorkers to a greater volume of should than that in any other city. As to Boston, he says that...