Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical Latine author extempore, and make and speak true Latine verse and prose, suo et aiunt Marti; and decline perfectly the paradignes of nounes and berbes in the Greek Tongue: let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College...
...learn, for instance that "every Scholar shall on the Lord's Day carefully apply himself to the Duties of Religion and Piety; and whoever 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 shall use any Diversions there-on or otherwise Behave himself Disorderly or Unbecoming the Season, shall be fin'd not exceeding three Shillings...
...University of Wisconsin, lately said: "I believe that resident housemothers in fraternity houses would represent a real improvement in fraternity life. . . ." (TIME, Jan. 3). He-men at other universities laughed largely. Last week a Mrs. K. M. Burrus of Louisville, Ky., mother of Jefferson Burrus, Wisconsin '26, Rhodes-scholar-prom-chairman-football-and-crew luminary, took up her residence in the Sigma Chi house at Madison. "I expect," she said, "to be called upon for any problems the boys might bring to their own mothers...
...Author. Emil Ludwig began to write plays at the age of 15 and, despite dabblings in law and business, continues to do so at 46. Quite naturally, he plunged into dramatic biographies to achieve his greatest works. Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly...
Stigma. Last year when they both acted in The Makropoulos Secret, Donald Duff was inspired to write a play for Joanna Roos. He called it Stigma, produced it himself, acts in it and helps direct. Miss Roos also appears. The youthful hero, a Rhodes scholar, declares all colors and conditions of women are equal in his sight, proves his preaching by practicing it upon a professor's wife and her Negro maid. The maid begets a child, the wife goes crazy, the theory goes wrong. With such material, a play must achieve sublimity or absurdity. The professor...