Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean West's greater achievement is the persistence of classical teaching in the U. S. When Princeton in 1883 gave him its doctor of philosophy degree, it immediately made him its professor of Latin. A scholar, it was presumed at that time, was a classicist. He knew his humanities and lived by them. A few years, however, and students asked the cash value of Latin and Greek and other "impractical" studies. No humanist, it was argued, ever turned a quick dollar. Professor West cried down the materialists. Classical learning, he contended, was one means if not the only means...
Married. Edward Eagan, one-time Rhodes scholar at Oxford, onetime heavyweight champion of the British Amateur Boxing Association, onetime captain of the boxing teams at Yale and at Oxford, great and good friend of Champion Pugilist James Joseph Tunney to Miss Margaret 'Colgate, daughter of President Sidney Morse Colgate of Colgate & Co., at Saranac Lake...
...order that they may listen to one possessed of an innate spark which stimulates them to pursue further the subject under discussion. No perfection of the technical details of the educational system, can recompense for an absence of this evanescent quality; and no accumulation of degrees transform a great scholar to a great teacher...
...Chadwick, Davison Scholar from Wadham College, Oxford, finds life in metropolitan American Cambridge in sharp contrast to life in rural Oxford. "Harvard Square," he told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Is one of the strongest arguments for Prohibition...
...method of controlling traffic by lights appealed to the visiting scholar. "In Picadilly," he said, "the lights are being tried, but are not used at all generally in England...