Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...female members of the National Academy of Sciences (TIME, May 11). Hippolytus was given in the original Greek, with full chorus and a new musical score, in Vassar's Experimental Theatre. The Greek department assisted; students who took part will be given degree credits. Dr. MacCracken, English scholar and professor, pointed out that many early English plays were written and performed in English schools. Said he: "We are but following the English custom in this, for it was an Eton headmaster, Nicholas Udal, who wrote the first English comedy extant, Roister Doister, four centuries...
...Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps the Vagabond climbed, dimly conscious that he had tasted a life and a time...
Spencer Drummond Pollard '32, of Washington, D.C. has been chosen Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. Who the other winners were could not be learned at a late hour last night. Pollard was chosen from twelve men who had qualified in the New England division. There were still three awards to be made to men from this section...
...About one hundred and forty orations have been delivered, and over one hundred poems have been written to celebrate these occasions. Among the orators have been John Quincy Adams, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wendell Phillips (whose address "The Scholar in a Republic" delivered at the one hundredth anniversary of the chapter, in 1881, ranks with Emerson's "The American Scholar" among the greatest orations of its type); Carl Schurz, Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Josiah Royce, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The names...
These changes are frequent. The best classical scholar of my year had specialized in mathematics at school until he was thirteen or fourteen. Of the four men in my class at Queen's who distinguished themselves in classics at the end of their second year, two went over to European history. Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard, did classics at school, and has since distinguished himself principally in mathematics and philosophy. It is erroneous to think of this scholarship system as fixing the boy's line of development. In a way it makes change more likely by insisting that...