Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sales prize of $60 for the best scholar in Spanish, from the bequest of Francis Sales, A.B. 1835, was divided between James Etmekjian '39, of Brighton and Kari T. Soule, Jr. '39, of Rochester, New York, as the result of an examination taken several weeks...
...George travelled this route of cheerful drudgery until the Mississippi school graduated him a promising scholar eight years later. He was remembered after George Peabody College in Nashville gave him a more genteely-earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He returned to State Teachers College at Hattiesburg with the rack of professor, and in 14 years made the climb to the presidency...
...George is the only alumnus of a Mississippi state-operated educational institution who is an alumnus of the college he heads. For the past five years he has directed the activities in the halls he once swept and on the campus into which he once dug deeply as scholar and laborer...
What Author Crow particularly liked about Confucius was that he attempted to found no religion, on the contrary disliked nothing more than.mystics and professional philosophers. He was really, says Author Crow, a brilliant scholar in search of an honest political job. With Chinese politics what they are, and Confucius the cautious kibitzer he was, he was 50 years old before he found one, as governor of a province. Besides giving the province the best government it had ever had, he also astonished his disciples as a master of realpolitik. His good-government policy was simple. He merely designated the following...
...harassed Honors candidate left the Hall, and followed by an anxious proctor crossed the street to the fruit stand, procured two apples and returned, to his seat, juggling the fruit. A rising ovation greeted the scholar with the sense to put his stomach first...