Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many translations followed, each backed by careful reasoning. For more than 90 years the controversy waxed and waned. Not until this year was it conclusively settled, by West Virginia's famed scholar and wit Andrew Price, president of the State Historical Society...
...Scholar Price says he first hunted up ancient alphabets, "including Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Babylonian cuneiform, Semitic Phoenician, Greek, Hebrew and Roman and sat down to draw far-fetched conclusions...
...members of one college, to discover men of national prominence in their respective lines. What of Professor Mason, an authority in the study of Romance Literature? What of Professor Prescott, author of recent critical books of considerable value, including Poetry and Myth? What of Professor Broughton, a most eminent scholar of Wordsworthiana? What of Professor J. Q. Adams, author of numerous studies of Shakespeare and his times? What of Professor Ries, whom all geologists know and admire...
Unlike his predecessor, President-Elect Sproul is no schoolman, no scholar, no holder of learned degrees. His business, which he entered the year he graduated from the institution, is the commerce of education...
...Helen Choate Bell prize, awarded for theses of merit in the field of American literature, was won by William E. Wilson 1G, of Evansville, Indiana. The John Osborne Sargent prize, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, was won by Roland Marandin Minns '31, Davison scholar of Surrey, England. The selection for 1929-1930 was the fifth ode of the third book of Horace...