Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europe's distinguished scholar, author, and soldier, Philippe-Jules-Fernand Baldensperger, professor of Modern Comparative Literature at the University of Paris, has been elected professor of Comparative Literature for five years beginning next September...
...student whose efficiency was more marked, but still on the minus side, sent his life blank with a 2 1/2 cent stamp. Three wily Seniors, however, either by design or through that absentmindedness common to the scholar, sent their statistics unstamped. Seven men, intending to be doctors, spelled their future profession's name "medecine." One Phillips Exeter alumnus, reported having prepared at "Philipps Exeter...
...Cassels is now working primarily in the London School of Economics and holds a fellowship in the Social Science Research Council. He is a graduate of the University of Alberts and received a B.A. degree from Oxford University in 1927, where he was a Rhodes scholar. Numerous articles have appeared in economic periodicals under his name...
Newsworthy were three other proposals in President Conant's report: ¶Many a scholar retreats into his own specialty, loses sight of outside progress. President Conant would appoint a select corps of "professors without portfolio'' to bridge the artificial gaps which over-specialization leaves between fields of study. "We need a certain number of university professors with roving commissions whose teaching and creative work shall not be hampered by departmental considerations...
Soon, on campuses all over the East, students began to hear from one or two respected classmates glowing descriptions of Philip Morris cigarets. Football players found their prowess rewarded with "flat fifties." Any man who was elected to a class office or chosen as a Rhodes Scholar was presented with "flat fifties." College sports editors were asked to run score-predicting contests with Philip Mor- ris cigarets as the prize...