Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Show '20, Captain of the University Fencing team in 1920, won three matches for the Oxford Fencing team against Cambridge, in a recent meet. Snow, who is now a Rhodes Scholar, was a brilliant fencer while in college. His two victories in foiling were the chief reasons for Harvard defeating Yale that year 5-4. That same day in a dueling swords exhibition, he defeated the conqueror of the intercollegiate champion...
...undergraduate might stay in residence for a period of years with very little work to his credit, while on the other an earnest and ambitious student can attain a degree of intellectual development in three years which, perhaps, will in certain ways put him ahead of the ordinary high scholar of an American institution. High scholarship is more highly prized at Oxford than at Harvard...
...American scholar for whom I have great respect, thought he has long been forgotten, has well said: The young man who is an enthusiastic student of Plato can never be a sciolist in regard to education, a quack in literature, a demagogue in politics, or an infidel in religion...
Charles Maurras, famed Royalist leader, distinguished classical scholar and author, co-editor of L'Action Francaise, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment by the Paris Court of Appeals for having incited young Royalists to administer castor oil to Socialist Deputies Maurice Viollette, Marc Sagnier and Marius Moutet. Last June M. Maurras was sentenced together with three members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Hawkers-a Royalist organization) to four months' imprisonment. Although he was not implicated in the original charge he came forward and took the blame for the assaults. In the Appeal trial...
...case had his chosen lines fallen in the field of politics. For above all he stands as a representative citizen, an all-around as well as a vastly influential and uplifting citizen, full of practical knowledge and of utilitarian wisdom, as well as versed in the love of the scholar. In the truest sense he ever has been a public man, though by profession an educator, much as another venerated Bostonian, the late Dr. E. E. Hale, was a veritable public man, though by profession a divine. For the word "public" has broadened with the years...