Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collaborators. Co-author Infeld is a distinguished theoretical physicist in his own right. A tall, jovial man with irregular teeth and the lumpy physique of a sedentary scholar, he speaks English with a heavy accent, but fluently and well. Born 40 years ago in Cracow, Poland, he studied at Cracow's ancient university and in Berlin, lectured in Lwów, spent some years in England's Cambridge as a Rockefeller fellow, joined the Institute at Princeton in 1936. In Cambridge he helped Physicist Max Born, another German exile (now at Edinburgh), in the formulation of a field...
...giving the youth of England and America an opportunity for better mutual understanding, Rhodes hoped to cement the bonds between the two countries. Inasmuch as the present type of Rhodes Scholar is often too immature or one-sided, a broader type of man, more capable of truly representing the American nation, should be chosen; and in the present-day world, this is particularly important. Intelligent cooperation among the democracies of the world is essential to world peace, and such cooperation will never be possible while it remains in the realm of academic theorizing. Men of practical ability, willing to play...
Temple's Don Shields was the star of the tourney, Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White its No. 1 box-office attraction. A better football than basketball player, Rhodes Scholar-designate White grinned his way through the final game, once turned to a teammate and audibly asked, "How do you like this part of the country, my friend?" Day after the final, Whizzer visited the New York Stock Exchange. Trading (such as there was) stopped five full minutes while brokers cheered...
Today's debate will be the third in a series of broadcasts over station WAAB. Holding forth for the Harvard team will be George Fox '38, President of the New England Intercollegiate Flying Association, a member of the Harvard Student Union, and in 1936 an exchange scholar to Ligan University, Canton, China, and Stanley Herzfeld '39, a member of the CRIMSON editorial Board, and the Harvard Student Union...
...Rhine and the Mind's Eye," an article in the Spring issue of the "American Scholar," he flays modern psychologists for refusing to take a more tolerant attitude towards extra-sensory-perception...