Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan & Co., proved himself a very rich Harvardman. To Dr. Conant he wrote: "I am glad to give . . . $500,000 as a foundation for one of the University Professorships. It would be a great satisfaction if the Corporation were able to call to this chair a scholar pre-eminent in the field of political economy. This vital subject has to do, I take it, with the fundamental principles which govern human affairs, as they concern the State and as they concern individuals. Political economy concerns itself as much with the behavior of man as a social animal as it does...
...hired Chinese mercenaries, escorted by Japanese troops, last week "captured" Tangku, port of Tientsin. If a renowned Chinese Marshal with a name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...
...attempting to prevent a possible European war, for unifying his nation, and risking his life in the defense of it. for TIME'S Man of the Year, I nominate a monarch, scholar, statesman, and hero-the Emperor Halle Selassie...
Deric Nusbaum '36, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been elected a Rhodes Scholar for 1936, according to Frank Aydelotte, president of Swathmore College and American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees...
...understand when I did tell him one day it would delight young students even as a Christmas play so I turned to philosophy and I did hear him say that Nature was the source and end and test of art. This coming from so great a scholar pleased me much...