Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of all there is the career of the pure scholar. In this field he has the greatest opportunity for creative work in the Fine Arts without having to temper his activities to the requirements of his surroundings. But naturally there is very little chance of making such a career self-supporting. In some way his work has to be endowed either by the foundations or through private subsidy. Such support is more than difficult to obtain and rarely given over any long period of time. Usually a compromise has to be made and so the pure scholar devotes...
Besides the director there are often many other subsidiary positions in connection with the museum field. However, since they are under the director's supervision, they allow even less freedom for the scholar and are more bound up with the execution of standard routine tasks, few of which demand scholarly knowledge and training. It must also be pointed out that the financial possibilities for men holding these positions are rarely adequate; and often the locality offers but little opportunity for private research and study...
...perhaps the time when the majority of undergraduates would be likely to use its facilities. Concerning the first complaint, we clearly can do nothing. It is up to the librarian to find a method of making the resources of Widener as accessible to the average student as to the scholar. We can, however, recommend...
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Sixteen hundred select U. S. doctors who belong to the American College of Physicians saluted a tidy-minded scholar by giving Professor Leo Loeb of Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) a gold medal during their annual meeting in Philadelphia last week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case...