Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three have received large blue questionaires from the Boy Scouts of America, requesting such information as "What do you think of scouting?" and "Do you feel that scouting helped you to become a Rhodes Scholar...
...bespectacled 20-year-old Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, All-America back and 1937's high college football scorer (122 points) who this week plays in the Cotton Bowl game against Rice Institute, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where his brother Samuel is currently a Rhodes Scholar...
Died. Newton Diehl Baker, 66, lawyer, scholar, Woodrow Wilson's peace-loving Wartime Secretary of War who organized an army of 4,000,000 men in less than two years; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Cleveland, Ohio. An early fighter for Cleveland reform and twice its mayor, he turned from trustbuster to corporation lawyer, from stanch Democrat to New Deal hater who this year helped contest TVA on behalf of power companies...
...Japanese military were also busy last week getting together such Chinese as they could find who were willing to form under Japanese tutelage a "Chinese Government" to replace that cleared out of Nanking (TIME, Nov. 29). There was talk of persuading China's all but forgotten "Scholar War Lord" Marshal Wu Pei-fu to abandon permanently the Buddhist monastery into which he had long ago retired (TIME, April 16, 1928 et seq.), and which reports had him often leaving. A bird actually in Japan's hand was Mr. Wang Keh-min, much heard of in 1935 when...
...stipend, founded by the late Jacob Wendell of New York is given each year to a top scholar in the Sophomore class. Invitation to an annual Wendell family dinner is included in the award which is given as a prize regardless of financial need...