Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success of the sport, which was introduced last year at Harvard by T. J. Jarman, at that time a Davison scholar at the University, is indicated by the rapidity with which other universities are taking it up. This year the University of Chicago is recruiting for a team, together with the universities of Syracuse and Pennsylvania. In the near future a meeting of Harvard undergraduates interested in the sport will be held here, at which a team will be organized, and the theory of the game will be explained...
...Authors. Herbert George Wells, onetime novelist, is the super-journalist of the World-Idea. Julian Sorell Huxley, brother to Aldous, is one of the foremost English biologists. George Philip Wells, son to Herbert George, is a sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, researches biologically...
...family has been prominent in the history of the University from the time when Michael, of the Class of 1651, was a tutor and a member of the Corporation. In six generations, none in the direct line fell below third scholar in his class. The death of Mr. George Wigglesworth, of the Class of 1874, occurred on November 28, 1930. He was for two terms on Overseer of Harvard College, and for the last three years thereof president of the Board...
Homage Volume. There is a code of ethics for a homage volume like Cancer. "The dedicatee should be recognized as an international leader in his field of research. He should be an eminent trainer of scholars, as well as himself an eminent scholar. . . ." By emphasizing the teacher a homage book differs from the Nobel prize in Medicine, which emphasizes the discoverer of medical fundamentals. Professor Ewing is of course both...
...having an unusual sense of fairness; scientifically aggressive and persistent; one who welcomes and encourages new avenues of approach to problems; a tireless worker; a severe but constructive critic; discriminating in his estimate of scientific contributions; a stimulating teacher; a forceful lecturer; an indefatigable contributor to scientific movements; a scholar; beloved by students and colleagues; a physician of the highest ideals...