Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Dublin's Department of Agriculture Building last week strode a 78-year-old, tall, erect, walrus-mustached Gaelic scholar. There, flanked by Eire Ministers, high court justices and Parliament leaders, this poet, playwright and author, Dr. Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party...
...physically or mentally, is Fellow James LuValle, a graduate assistant in chemistry at California Institute of Technology, who is working for a Ph.D., will use his fellowship for research in physical chemistry. A crack quarter-miler and former captain of the University of California at Los Angeles track team, Scholar-Athlete LuValle represented the U. S. in the 1936 Olympics...
...biography of Confucius. What attracted him to Confucius was not the official perfectionist version of China's greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...
...quarrel is with the scientists themselves. With the present status of scientific literature as a background, a well-written article would stand out in any standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation on the Effects of Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks Old Spinach Plants...
...books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour, and the treasures remain. The field of learning widens but work becomes specialized and subdivided, and each scholar may know his part. All are under obligation to the munificence of past generations...