Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best pupil in town. He won countless prizes, especially for oratory. Once he & friends removed the clapper from a Methodist Church bell and, baffled by the Presbyterian clapper, left it wrapped up in their clothes. But such a prank, except for indicating energy-voltage, was not typical of young Scholar-Orator Fosdick. who knew what he wanted to do and was well on the road to doing...
Everyone who frequents college towns must have been amused at the struggles of professors to turn a "realtor's" creation, into a scholar's dwelling. There will be no such trouble in the House Master's residences. Their exteriors are those of a brick colonial mansion, their interiors are academic professorial. Built into the body of the House and connected with it, each is nevertheless easily distinguishable from the mass of the building by its residential aspect and can be lived in without going into the students' or tutors' quarters. For the privilege of living in either of the House...
Simonne Ratel, journalist and scholar, has taken her M. A. in Greek and Latin at the Sorbonne. Onetime member of the editorial staff of France-Islam, of La Renaissance du Lime, of Comoedia, she has also published a book of essays, Cocktail. The adaptation of Love's Not Enough is by Joseph Collins, famed litterateur-physician...
Died. William Archibald Spooner, 86, oldtime classics scholar at Oxford University, onetime honorable canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, editor of a once-famed text, The Histories of Tacitus, originator of "Spoonerisms"; at New College, Oxford. Typical "Spoonerisms...
...Leon B. Richardson, professor of chemistry at Dartmouth: "The student . . . forms the idea that an accumulation of pedagogic credits makes a teacher, that untiring industry and uninspired adherence to directions in the solution of some minor problem of research makes a scholar...