Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very happy to take advantage of this occasion to say a word with reference to the presidential succession. . . In the three years since he joined our teaching force there has been one of our colleagues. He is a scholar of the first rank, a man of strong, true character, with humor, vision and a deep spiritual, nature. He will be a wise administrator, fitting with exceptional adaptation into the traditions of our college. I predict for his leadership a success in keeping with that of the best of his predecessors...
...those Harvard graduates who have returned to China to lead a great national movement against the policies of American and foreign financiers and concessionaires. With them should be classed such a modern Marco Polo as Fan Noli '12 that strange Bishop, General, ex-Premier, soldier of fortune and scholar of Albania. Yesterday's Associated Press dispatches carry the news that he has originated and signed a Bolshevist manifesto, which may embroil the Balkans in one of their periodic convulsions. But what is seldom mentioned in such dispatches is the fact that he has for more than a decadated the struggle...
...boast of most any scholar that he does not care for fame and studiously avoids publicity. It is a good boast. It reconciles the scholar to the actual circumstances of his position and enables him to construct and to maintain a standard of values which is of his own making. To feel his long studies hidden in his own breast, his thoughts at times revolving tumultuously there as though they were animated by the seed of truth and must therefore out, yet again subsiding in acknowledged error, and at the same time to see harvests of wealth and reputation...
...emotional, so-called "human side" of every man, even man, even of the scholar requires some satisfaction and the public, little is it may sympathize, deserves to be shown, now and again, what even its most secluded inhabitants have been doing. Most scholars are in the habit of reaching at least their scholastic confreres with their published opinions. Most are actually content with stopping here, content with fame among those who will study and preserve their works to another generation of students. By the time that this fame has been attained, moreover, long seclusion and advanced age has usually, deadened...
...works and wisdom for public consumption the creating of a "human" atmosphere about him, so that, though still not fully comprehended, scholarship may have a name in the land and an allurement that will draw men into its pursuit. Professor Alfred North Whitehed has long been established in scholarly fame. His publication of some memoires in the current Atlantic Monthly brings to the most sedate and contemplative portion of the reading public a sense of the unceasing and sensitive powers of observation and interpretation a man must possess to interpret life soundly. A wider, busier, and usually less concerned public...