Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...development of the United States which had theretofore been largely neglected by historians. A grasping of the full significance of the frontier in American history, its far-reaching economic effects, its faculty of molding national character, its persistent influence in politics, is an achievement of which any scholar may justly feel proud...
...President rose to greatness from humble beginnings. When he was a plain Tuchun things were easier. Now he is President, "anything but a scholar" and not understanding the intricacies of politics, he is at a grave disadvantage. Instead of being surrounded by an army eager to obey his command he is surrounded by an army of "corrupt, selfish, intriguing and clever" politicians eager to command him. This is why he is "sick and unhappy...
...definitely past, Professor Phelps catechized his class in Contemporary Drama at Yale shortly after the spring recess and made the startling discovery that the modern university undergraduate no longer follows in the dreary wake of the t. b. m. Elevated drama is now the mental restorative of the jaded scholar, and girl and music shows and boisterous revues are relegated to the limbo which conceals the Gaiety and the Old Howard...
...unfair, however, to draw from these premises any conclusions overwhelmingly complimentary to the foreign student, and disaparaging to the American. One has every reason to believe that in normal times the continental scholar was, on the whole, quite as dilatory, as indisposed to hard work, as his American counterpart. Where there were lean and hungry students there, working overtime to gain a higher education, there were also men of the same type here. But whereas conditions in the United States have been what is considered "normal" for a long time, and at present seem inclined to remain so, political...
...Institute will be tried, it has been definitely announced, for two years, after which time its success may be better judged. The foreign scholar for this summer has not yet been chosen but the names of Emile Male, Director of the French Academy at Rome, Bernard Berenson of Florence, Franz Cumont of Brussels and O. M. Dalton of the British Museum, have been suggested...