Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there been in standards? Mr. Conant has a disconcerting way of referring to scholarship in an all-inclusive manner but this may not tell the whole story. In his own words, he believes that a professor should be "something of a teacher and a great deal of a scholar or something of a scholar and a great deal of a teacher." No man can be lacking it either...
...Sales prize of $60 for the best scholar in Spanish "who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish competition," to Albert L. Rabinovits '36, of Chelsea, for a translation of a passage from Kenneth Roberts' "Rabble in Arms...
...unveiling Baron Gabor de Bessenyey, scholar, raconteur, friend of the artist, orated, comico-seriously: "This is the 20th-century Last Supper. As in another picture of the same subject a banquet scene of the cinquecento was portrayed, here we have a typical genre picture of the 20th Century. In the original it was the last supper for One Man: in this, alas, it is often the last supper of many...
...Princeton. Later, when he helped edit Webster's Dictionary, he had his family to occupy him. But eight years ago he left Webster's to study and write, soon moved to Cambridge to be near the Harvard Library. There he lives alone, a tall, handsome, white-haired scholar with two sons away at school. When he seeks relaxation from writing such works as An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Versions of the Story of Troy or such moral treatises as The Life Everlasting and The Farther Shore, Professor Griffin can always drop in on friends...
...post of dean of the graduate school and senior college Chancellor Kirkland had chosen no Vanderbilt wheel horse but President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael of Alabama College. President Carmichael is a onetime Rhodes scholar in anthropology who elected to teach French in Alabama schools. In 1922 he went to Alabama College as assistant to the president, stepped into his superior's shoes four years later. At 43 he is a progressive educator with a Hitler mustache and a talent for raising money...