Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fear of being mobbed by rowdy agents of the Nationalist Government with which he is out of sympathy, has long since made patrician Scholar Hu extremely careful of his delicate, parchment-like skin. For months he has spent his studious nights in the well guarded foreign quarter of Shanghai, venturing out only by day to the suburb of Woosung where he is president of a private college called the China National Institute. Recently, however, Dr. Hu, daring much, contributed to the leading Chinese intellectual review, the monthly Crescent Moon, three articles flaying the Nationalist Government. Last week Nationalist's militaristic...
...joined with about the same number of U. S. and Canadian physiologists in the 13th International Physiological Congress. The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass. William Henry Howell, scholar, researcher and executive, had the honor of being the Congress president. No one grudged him the position for Dr. Howell, 69, director of Johns Hopkins school of hygiene and public health, has been eminent in U. S. physiology for more than a generation. Among his fundamental contributions are origin...
...world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever since. They worshipped strange gods in weird cypress groves and spoke a tongue which no one, except perhaps the scholar who drowned last week, has ever satisfactorily deciphered...
...assistant's position should not be the means of any graduate student working his way through for a Ph.D., nor should it be a position for any man who happens to want it who can flash a Phi Beta Kappa key. One does not have to be a scholar to be a teacher...
German Ambassador Herr Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, scholar student directing a heavy intellect upon the intricacies of musty international politics. A tall, spare man, stiff and unbending in manner, he could see no sense in reducing the rights of a diplomat...