Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well circumstanced rumor has it that Dean Pound of the Law School is to be offered the presidency of Wisconsin University. The suggestion is flattering, but the offer itself may be ominous. The rumor alone must make the University anxious to tie closer a man whose reputation as a scholar does honor to Harvard and whose efforts as an administrator have placed the Law School among the foremost in the world...
...FRENCH REVOLUTION IN ENGLISH HISTORY-Philip Anthony Brown -Button ($3.00). Philip Brown was a young Oxford graduate who died a soldier's death on the fields of Flanders in 1915 in his 30th year. Prof. Gilbert Murray, famed Greek scholar, pays ample tribute to his great intellectual gifts in a short introduction...
This Book What of Howells' cast of mind, the nature of his work? Others having collated the external revelations of Howells; a patient, discriminating scholar has now set to work upon the vast cumulus of Howells' literary secretions, as would a paleontologist upon the ponderous remains of a dinosaur. He spreads them out, classifies them; then pores, probes, weighs, analyzes, to educe both a composite picture of the author and a meticulous evaluation of the cumulus itself...
Royal H. Snow, captain of the University fencing team in 1920, and Rhodes scholar at Oxford, is leading the swordsmen of the English university this year...
...what about the parent? 'Child,' said the mother of Increase Mather, 'if thou art a good Christian and a good scholar, then art all that thy mother ever hoped for thee.' How many of the boys who now fail to meet our standard of scholarship have been led to suppose that their parents measure a boy's success in college largely by his success as a scholar? I do not know. But I do know that, no matter how hard professors and headmasters may work to replace low ideals of scholarship by high ones, our successful scholars will...