Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishment of a "pickaback scholar" plan at Vassar is much to be hoped for . . . As members of an educational institution we must surely recognize the benefits of this new plan and encourage its inception here. --Vassar Miscellany News
...noted in the field of modern education. Through an "undergraduate faculty," the Cambridge plan offers an educational opportunity to worthy high school graduates unable for various reasons to attend college . . . Such a tremendously important and progressive plan elicits our strongest praise and approval. For the advantages of the "pickaback scholar" system are numerous and far-reaching. It provides for further education, not only through classes, but also through the use of the library and the general introduction of eager pupils to the college as a place of learning. It offers a means for the scholarship student to gain financial help...
...armed with good teaching, survey courses, and the principle of concentration Harvard has a fair chance of reconciling its twofold educational aim: the training of both the scholar and the man of action...
...gauge public reaction to his translation-on which he has labored for 35 years-worked like a charm. They brought prompt denunciations. Said Chicago's Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart: "A fake translation, destroying the fragrance and beauty of the Bible." Dr. John Scott, retired Northwestern Greek scholar: "A parody." Dr. William Andrew Irwin, Chicago Old Testament professor: "There is no need to vulgarize the Bible...
...heart disease came suddenly last week to Herman Oliphant, 54, grey-locked, hollow-eyed general counsel of the Treasury Department. It left the Treasury bereft of the most earnest economic experimenter remaining there since the withdrawal of the late Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936. All but the bare principle of that tax, which Franklin Roosevelt loved for its neat theory,* was killed by the last...