Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poet Robinson nowadays spends his winters at leisure in New York, his summers at the MacDowell colony in New Hampshire, where he works laboriously all day, shoots facile pool far into the night. Tall and slender, he has the drooped shoulders of the scholar. Shy, quiet, secretive, he has a brilliant occasional smile. Accused of an obscurity as great as Browning's he murmurs: "Why can't they read one word after another...
...Sales Prize of $60 to the best scholar in Spanish was awarded to Frederic Kappeler Arnold '29, of Framington Centre with Ernest Martin '29, of Taunton receiving honorable mention. The Jeremy Belknap Prize of $50 for the best French composition written by a first year student in the college or Engineering School was awarded to Bertram Henry Schaffner '32, of Eric. Pennsylvania, and Honorable Mention was made of Ernest Julian Greenhood '32, of Brookline, and Jacob Canter '32, of Newton...
...point of death, Sophocles answered: "The Arabs, Dr. W., estimate age by several standards. The age of Hassan, the porter, is reckoned by his wrinkles; that of Abdallah, the physician, by the lives he has saved; that of Achmet, the sage, by his wisdom, I, all my life a scholar, am nearing my hundredth year...
Ignoring his youth will be more than ever necessary for President Hutchins of Chicago. He will command educational machinery used by nearly 15,000 students. To him for decisions will come such world-famed professors as Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, Greek Scholar Paul Shorey, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Theologian Shailer Mathews, Latinist Gordon Jennings Laing, English Littérateur Robert Morse Lovett. Physically the University of Chicago is among the hugest in the U. S. Buildings started last year included a Social Sciences Building, the Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital for Children, the George Herbert Jones Chemistry Building...
...production next year will be under the direction of Mason Hammond '25, Instructor and Tutor in the Department of the Classics, who had an opportunity to observe similar plays while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. E.K. Rand '94, Professor of Latin, who acted in the "Phormio" of Terence presented in 1893, will attend the rehearsals; and F.C. Packard Jr. '20. Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, will direct the acting. The production will be open to the entire University, and probably to the public as well...