Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every seat in the Lecture Hall was taken and both side aisles were jammed with standees during the entire address, constituting, as one member of the faculty was heard to say, "A remarkable tribute to a great scholar...
...carefree scholar began his first line auspiciously. But when he came to the end of the line, the expediency of decending to the next failed to penetrate his enthusiastic absorption in his subject. Consequently, he continued his line on across the wide expanse of the board, and only when he reached the end of that did he begin afresh. A beautiful examination was the product, but the dreadful irony of it all is that only one third of it appeared in the blue book...
...fact that students are desirous of seeing their mutilated masterpieces is no indication that there still exists a belief that papers are graded in such unorthodox methods as the stairway system. Such a desire might even be attributed to a craving for knowledge, the interest of the eager scholar to know wherein he has erred, to profit by his mistakes and augment his fund of information even after examinations...
...last week's climactic moment Dr. Hartman, a big, handsome scholar, was confronted by 3,000 dentists and scouts for dental supply houses. Them he vexed by what they considered a needless description of a tooth's construction: hard, nerveless enamel over dentine over pulp. The pulp contains the tooth's nerve. The dentine contains a fatty substance called lipoid which Dr. Hartman believes transmits pain to the nerve. By temporarily disconnecting the lipoid from the nerve he believes that he interrupts transmission of pain during drilling in the dentine. Following this theory, he devised a solution...
Printer's ink in his soul "Manny" Wolfe drifted west where be enrolled in the University of California (Berkelrey)...english scholar and backstage workers for college plays . . . who left Chaucer after graduation in '27 for such things as traveling with Isadora Duncan dancers... beginning as "reader" at Warner Brothers . . . making symphonies of books and magazine stories . . . he went up the tinselled ladder until he achieved his present position . . . that of assigning work to Paramount writers, Reading scripts, and looking for writing talent... and writning nothing himself, expect notes for the writers...