Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics. His institution comes close to being the most enterprising State university. Five years ago its General College was a bold experiment to provide misfit students with a broad, unclassical education. Today it is widely copied...
...this way. Facts are blocks, and with them the comprehending scholar can lay out a number of designs. On the other hand, the tutored man has the blocks; but he knows only one design. He fails when called upon to lay out any other...
Emerson's best letters were written to his family on his lecture tours. They considerably spoil the conventional picture of New England's Transcendentalist-in-chief as shy, frail and retiring. Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very, zany Poet Ellery Channing and "this Gautama" Bronson Alcott, myth has made him one of them. His letters show he never wholly...
Broadus Mitchell, 20 years on Johns Hopkins' faculty, was acknowledged an outstanding scholar on the South's economy and a popular teacher. To the Sun (which had itself quarreled with and been denounced by him), Dr. Mitchell had "stood for many years as a symbol of academic freedom" at Johns Hopkins. He ran for Governor of Maryland as a Socialist,* excoriated Marylanders for the lynching of a Negro, quarreled with Hopkins trustees, once went to Duke University to tell its co-eds that Benefactor James Buchanan Duke "was lacking in social insight...
...head their organizing committee they chose A. Conger Goodyear, a solid, sensitive industrialist (lumber) with practical experience as a trustee of Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery. Mr. Goodyear knew a number of good men to have on the board of trustees, among them Harvard's eminent scholar and mentor of curators, Professor Paul Joseph Sachs. As Professor Sachs returned from a trip abroad in June 1929, Mr. Goodyear shook his hand and asked him to name the ablest candidate available for the directorship of a modern museum. He named Alfred Hamilton Barr...