Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discounting all attacks against the mathematics of the Duke extra-sensory perception experiments, Edward V. Huntington '95, professor of Mechanics, in is it Chance or ESP?, an article in the Spring issue of the American Scholar, explains the mathematical basis for the Duke tests...
...short, the means are often taken for the aim, the sign for the thing represented. Thus Professor Lake's comments seem both familiar and well founded, and I cannot help wondering why the Crimson makes these remarks of Professor Lake's an occasion for criticizing a great and humane scholar...
...reasons for dismissal, in certain cases, are disputable. Why, for instance, should an English teacher be required to waste several years obtaining a Ph.D., if he has no interest in doing his research work in Philosophy? Such a man can prove as good a scholar along more modern and more unexplored lines. Granted that the academic side of teaching is the major consideration, the human or personal element must not be overlooked. For, unless a man puts his knowledge across to his students, he is merely a scholar, not a teacher. Again, should the political or social tendencies of teachers...
...Diplomatist) was a small boy, he believed that the greatest man in the world was his uncle. Lord Dufferin, Queen Victoria's slight, swarthy, long-haired, dreamy-eyed Governor-General of Canada, Ambassador to Russia, Turkey, Italy and France, Viceroy of India, amateur painter, architect, Greek and Persian scholar, author. Lord Dufferin died in 1902, when Harold Nicolson...
...scholar who takes great interest in illegitimate births is Zoologist Samuel Jackson Holmes of the University of California. Last week he announced his analysis of the Census Bureau's latest annual (1934) survey of U. S. bastardy. In that year out of every 1,000 childbirths, 39 babieS were born out of wedlock. Some 35,000 of them were white (20.4 per 1,000 births), 43.000 black (151.5 per 1,000 births). That was just about what Professor Holmes expected...