Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Browning, commanding officer of the Harvard Military Science department, made this statement in reference to the new method of building up a national reserve of 4000 scholar-soldier-industrialists devised by Hanford McNider '11, Assistant Secretary of War. This plan will become effective next spring and is supported by industrialists all over the country...
...from his chair the professor who had spent his life in a small, confined, though definite teaching of small, confined, yet definite truths. With the advent of natural history, modern languages, and the multifarious, subjects necessary to equip the modern youth for his complicated world a new type of scholar was developed. The German tradition swept in with its directorate, its Teutonic philology, its attempt to grasp the fundamentals of the inductive system. Where one had been able to deliver ancient and musty truths which followed easily and logically from general premises, he was now confronted with the necessity...
...directness of its approach. He spends classroom hours expounding the benefits to be derived from an accurate appreciation of Gray's use of he comma. The third class embraces such men as Bliss Perry, formerly editor of the "Atlantic", who in his fear of being less the scholar for being more the teacher does a forensic tightrope act between vitality and the verbal norm. None of these three classes apparently dares give to the undergraduate food for thought, for all appear in constant trepidation lest undergraduates enjoy their lectures. Nor is this word "enjoy" used in any vulgar sense...
...took honors in zoology in a college of science; Robert Hichens attended a college of music; Thomas Hardy acquired an education at evening classes in King's College, London; Kipling went to the United Service College, not an institution famous for turning out literati George Bernard Shaw, a poor scholar, left school at fifteen, and plunged into the literary world through the medium of a real-estate office...
...eminent Greek professor once gave as a reason for the study of that language the feeling of quiet superiority a Greek scholar was able to maintain over the vast majority of people who did not share in his accomplishments. And so with the Photographic Department of the CRIMSON...