Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exact line of demarcation which separates the scholar from the pedant has never been determined to the satisfaction of any one man, much less an academy. One may always accuse a scholar of being pedantical merely, as Professor Kittredge has pointed out, because his work is uninteresting to the reader as an individual; and the fact that others may find the same matter intensely vital and alive does not remove the ignominy of its having failed to attract at least one person. Only occasionally comes there a man who contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully...
Jefferson D. Burrus is a Senior at the University of Wisconsin. For three years he has played football at end for his university, and this year captains the Wisconsin crew. Moreover he has recently been elected Rhodes Scholar from the State of Wisconsin, which conveys the impression that his scholarly achievements approach his athletic record in excellence. Backed by the Wisconsin Union, Burrus writes on "The Present Intercollegiate Athletic System". After an exhaustive study of the situation he writes, "I have tried to present what I believe is the predominate attitude toward college athletics of four closely interested classes...
...central thesis of Malthus, that population tends naturally to increase faster than the means of subsistence, is accepted by every scholar and is easily demonstrable to all who grant the soundness of the elementary theorems of arithmetic. We can raise the saturation point of the earth in terms of population by new discoveries, as heat raises the saturation point of water in terms of various salts. But since we can neither enlarge our universe nor emigrate from it, we can never abrogate the law of population by such means, if prolific Nature is allowed full sway. We are trapped...
Although it is more than likely that when these gilded words meet the weary eyes of the rising scholar, the clock will be safely past the witching hour of nine, still it is deemed advisable by those powers which each day lay out monsieur's mental garb that he should today make serious effort to reach Harvard 1 by seven minutes after the hour mentioned to hear Professor Gay discourse on "A Survey of Railroad History in the United States Since 1880." Here is a topic of no mean attractiveness; there is romance enough about the growth of the railroads...
...walked toward the Daniels Home, when we were accosted by seven or eight soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Southern [Nationalist] army. The soldiers stopped us and demanded our valuables, which we handed over. Dr. Williams, who was a noted Chinese scholar and spoke the language like a native, then stepped up and addressed one of the soldiers and protested at the action...