Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal. In 1932 he turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat" on the U. S. Supreme Court, succeeding his friend Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who in turn had succeeded another friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...have at the present time," said he, "a new reason for being proud. The scholar is supposed to be a man who has renounced the world. But the world has very seldom seemed more eminently worth renouncing. . . . The Modern Language Association's only object is the accumulation of useless knowledge, and of useless knowledge at least one thing may be said -it never did anyone any harm. . . . Some day when a little child climbs upon your knee to ask: 'Grandpa, what did you do during the Great War?' you are going to be very lucky...
John Kieran is short, wiry, grey, bristly and brilliant. Daily in his sport column he reports ball players speaking with the tongues of savants, quotes Latin, law, manages to be humorist, poet and picker of winners. John's radio foray revealed him further as a Shakespeare scholar, an expert on birds and nature, a walking record book on sports, the most dependable know-it-all of Information Pleased omniscient pack...
Robert M. Boyd '41, of New York City and Lowell House was awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship given annually to an outstanding scholar in the sophomore class. The prize scholarship, awarded regardless of financial status, carries a stipend of $500, and automatically makes the recipient a member of the society of previous winners who dine with the Wendell family and the President of Harvard...
After attending a debutante party and getting to bed at 4 a. m., 20-year-old Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., grandson of the late President, heard that he had been chosen a Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. The scholarship board called him one of the most unusual students ever to win a scholarship. Scholar Roosevelt is completing the regular four-year course at Harvard in three years, reads 13 languages (English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Icelandic, German, Gaelic, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Russian, Middle High German...