Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little man with a big head and weak eyes, Schliemann's chief characteristic was his tireless energy. No cloistered scholar but a man of big affairs, he had the unabashed eccentricities of a millionaire. He "instructed every one on the healthy way to live, and if he saw pale women, he would say without ceremony: 'Why don't you take walks?' and to men with red necks: 'Why don't you bathe? You'll get apoplexy. Go for walks! Bathe!' " When he became displeased with Gladstone, "he took [Gladstone's] portrait...
Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, scholar and poet, will come to Harvard for the academic year 1931-32 as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. He will succeed the Norton Professor for the current academic year, Arthur Mayger Hind, of the British Museum, formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford...
...continuation of this tradition. Although there are certain disadvantages to the location of the Woodberry Memorial in the seclusion of the third floor in Widener there can be little doubt that it will prove of great value. Centralizing the scattered collections of poetry is of service to the scholar and should at the same time give many the opportunity to browse who would otherwise not have been able...
...hold its final meeting of the year, when F. V. Field '27 will speak on the subject "Processes of Imperialism--United States and China." Field, who is a former president of the CRIMSON, is at present connected with the Institute of Pacific Relations, and is also an author and scholar of considerable renown...
...ordinary ailments rather than everyday broken legs or appendectomies. Last year 3,000 students applied for admission. Because Duke hopes to distinguish itself by selecting its men carefully, only 70 were admitted. A principle adopted by the medical school's able Dean Wilbur Cornell Davison?Princeton man, Oxford Rhodes scholar, Johns Hopkins professor?is to speed up the medical course, get his men through in two or three years by means of a four-quarter plan, give them as much hospital work as possible. A pediatrist, he has helped plan the hospital, introduced many an innovation such as a shop...