Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Clifford Herschel Moore, 65, Pope professor of Latin and dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences of Harvard University; after a brief illness; in Cambridge, Mass. Famed as a classics scholar, he was a leader of the "progressive" educational movement at Harvard...
Unquestionably the greatest of U. S. churchmen, Cardinal Gibbons was a Renaissance scholar-statesman-priest in a U.S. pioneer background. Born in Baltimore in 1834, he was chaplain to Federal troops during the Civil War. In 1868 he was appointed Missionary Bishop to the new Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, never forgot his welcome in Wilmington: a torchlight procession of drunken negroes, exulting in their new freedom. Youngest Bishop in his church at the Vatican Council of 1870, he became Archbishop of Baltimore in 1877, Cardinal...
...Amos Noyes, director of Caltech's Gates Chemical Laboratory. Director Noyes kept the brilliant young man at Caltech another year under a National Research Fellowship, then sent him on a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to Europe for a look at physical chemistry there. Back went the scholar to Caltech and an assistant professorship. A workout in that position, then an associate professorship; then this year, at 30, a full professorship of theoretical chemistry...
...historic white homesteads and its annual production of 500,000 Kiddie-Kars, gathered many a distinguished well-wisher for the ground-breaking exercises. Robert Devore Leigh, 40, onetime Williams professor, president of the new college, led the ceremony. The audience eyed him appraisingly, a pink-cheeked, bespectacled scholar who is expected to infuse Bennington with the same stirring liberalism he had shown at Williams. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Vermont novelist and trustee of the college, made an address. Other speeches were made by President William Allan Neilson of Smith College, Director William E. Rappard of the Geneva School for Higher International...
...cataloguing section of the British Museum, became successively London agent for U. S. Publisher Scribner, lecturer at Cambridge, Librarian of the House of Lords. Gosse, who loved the peerage, liked being its Librarian; was desolated when he was retired in 1914. Pedantic but not a first-rate scholar, Gosse once published a book (From Shakespeare to Pope) which was full of detectable howlers; they were detected. Gosse, wounded, quivering, became even more of a mimosa...