Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university need not squirm because one of its professors publicly opposes the pet policy of seedy politicians who immodestly call themselves statesmen. A radical, wild-eyed communist does not enhance the reputation of his Alma Mater, but on the other hand the timid scholar who buries himself and his wisdom in dusky library stacks likewise does little in this direction. Professors who state their candid opinions clearly and back them up with sensible arguments certainly are not "agitators...
...learned "to stutter in 20 languages," learned Persian in three weeks, once wrote that he was going to take a fortnight off to master Gothic before studying Old Nordic and Old Saxon. Less ambitious, Marx merely studied Russian, Serbian, Slavic. In one period when he could not work, the scholar read for recreation two volumes on physiology, Kolliker's Histology, Spurzheim's The Anatomy of the Brain and the Nervous System, Schwann & Schleiden's On Cell Matter...
Gabriella Bosano, Director of the Department of Italian-Language and Literature at Wellesley College, and well-known Italian scholar, has accepted the invitation of the Circolo Italiano, to speak on December 11 at Phillips Brooks House...
...National Scholarships" with which Harvard University is planning to celebrate its 300th birthday next autumn. Here is an institution which, though wholly free of governmental control, is truly national in the American use of the word. Its rededication to the country, under the vigorous leadership of the distinguished scholar who has become its president, is a fine and welcome gesture...
...took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky on the tragic biography of her husband. No such swift-moving dramatic tale but a rich, fat history of the dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject but an enthusiastic scholar, equipped with information worthy of one twice his years.* If the pattern of Dance is sometimes involved and cluttered, it is because Author Kirstein was unwilling to neglect any phase or style of dancing which even remotely contributed to the evolution of the art as it is currently known. He begins...