Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortunate in getting the services of Dr. Heinrich Bruening for the coming year, and he will be able to give much more to the University than the mere prestige of his name. Although he is well known the world over for his political activities, he also is an eminent scholar, having studied the economics of trade for many years. This combination of research and theoretical knowledge, with years of practical experience in government service, has given him a breadth of knowledge and realistic understanding of world problems that can hardly be surpassed...
...philosophy. He's not an American, though he was educated there; he's not a Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...
Professors Abbott's knowledge of Seventeenth Century England has in many instances cast a new light on the understanding of the revolutionary and religious movements of that significant period. For his books on this subject, perhaps even more than for his lectures he will be remembered as a great scholar possessed with the keenest of intellects and yet with the crispness of wit which save his works from the abyss of factual documentary, but dull historical evidence...
NLRB's non-Smith and chairman is Joseph Warren Madden, a quiet, friendly, good-humored scholar, greying at 47, who has been law professor at Cornell, Stanford, Chicago, Oklahoma, Ohio State, West Virginia and Pittsburgh universities. No recluse, he served in Pittsburgh on an NRA regional labor board, a special committee to arbitrate a streetcar strike, a Governor's commission on special policing in industry, a federation of social agencies, a housing association. For fun he leads an orchestra composed of his three sons and two daughters, plays tennis with his sons and baseball with the NLRB employes...
...Richard Lapiere-Harper ($2.50). Laid in 19th Century China, the quiet but well written story of a talented youth whose efforts to become a scholar are sacrificed to the customs of family worship...