Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William E. Dodd is an able, courageous scholar, but his penchant for drawing lessons from the past has more than once carried him out of diplomatic bounds. Last week Idaho's Borah and other Senate foes of the President's Plan were as furious at his ambassadorial intrusion into 1937's hottest political fight as were Nazis when Ambassador Dodd. in one of his first Berlin speeches, used the careers of the Caesars as his springboard for a two-footed jump on dictatorships...
...eminent and painstaking scholar, Maurois' history will present very little that is new in the interpretation of Britain's past. To the uninitiated or the casual student, the book will provide a well rounded, clearly thought out study of "England from the earliest times to the accession of George VI--the drama of a small barbaric island's rise to mastery over a third of the globe...
...German bachelor, visiting England on a passport bearing the name "Ian Anderson," received word that he had been appointed a professor at Harvard University. "Ian Anderson," whose friends know him as Germany's onetime (1930-32) Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, was as glad as any exiled German scholar to get work...
...only objection is that that notice was posted early in October, and although there are weekly assignments, no written announcements of them, in that particular section, have been made since. Almost all the English A instructors are regularly or occasionally remiss in nailing up these little sheets. The diligent scholar, to be sure, can always get the assignment in class. Since, however, the written announcements are prescribed, the intention of the course is clearly to provide for the day-dreamers and the hooky-players. A little closer attention to duty on the part of the instructors might inspire a like...
Rand--excellent and inspiring teacher and scholar of the old school...