Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represented the essence of the Harvard spirit. His distinguished heritage and accomplishments as an historian are reasons for his fame in the public eye, but those closer to him will feel the loss of a man of great natural charm as well as of one who was a gifted scholar and teacher...
...that, while the School provides adequate training for "the industrious, worthy men who will find an honorable and highly useful place in secondary schools or in research laboratories", it does not adapt itself to the needs of the man who in college has already shown himself to be a scholar of more than mediocre potentiality...
...lives quietly in Princeton, has not taken a drink since Prohibition became law. In 1925 President Coolidge appointed him to the bench after the Anti-Saloon League's late great Wayne Bidwell Wheeler had indorsed him as a thoroughgoing Dry. A natural scholar, he assembled years of reading and research in his decision. Thirty-three of his decisions have been carried to higher courts; only three have been reversed. Appeal. Attorney General Mitchell immediately ordered the Sprague case appealed directly to the U. S. Supreme Court for a full test of the points raised against the 18th Amendment. Sweeping...
...made a crony of Josef Pilsudski. a man who craves companionship. Marshal (later dictator) Pilsudski, a stalwart, used to be able to bend silver rubles with his mighty fingers, to crack nuts in his hairy fist Nuncio Ratti could not duplicate those feats. His hands were, and are, a scholar's soft ones. ' Joint diversion of the Marshal and the Nuncio was chess, at which both are adept. The bold Pole favored vigorous attack. The astute Italian shifted his play between defense and attack. The Marshal won sufficiently often not to resent his opponent's superior intellect...
...College. Among Holden's activities as an undergraduate are listed University polo and the position of Treasurer of the Dramatic Club. In his Freshman year he was on the debating and dramatic clubs; last year he was manager of the Cercle Francais and one of the nominees for Rhodes Scholar for the year...