Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a huge-framed, six-foot scholar marched up to the platform of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary to receive the degree of Master of Sacred Theology. He was Edward Rochie Hardy Jr., 26. and the degree was the fifth for New York City's most famed prodigy...
...which we find ourselves in the beginning was made by Jonathan Edwards. "He was able to spin his inept sublimities by subtracting from his mind every trace of experience, every touch of human nature as it really was among his innocent country folk." He was a rapt and isolated scholar whose wrathful theology found no listener in the market place. On the other hand our great Dr. Franklin with his immense practicality and the common sense of poor Richard: what knew he of that inner spirit which lifts man and his works into the realm of the sublime...
Concerning "Catherine the Great" the old problem of the relation of history and the historical drama arises. Although in "Henry VIII" the scholar complained that political significance was abandoned for the more intimate personal relationships of the great, the personalities of the present film are presented in a fashion that ably combines the human interest with the political. But just as Maxwell Anderson recently gave a more virtuous character to the heroine of his "Mary of Scotland" than history allows, so has Elizabeth Bergnor's Catherine been blessed with an unbelievable holiness of purpose, that is inconsistent with even...
...less and less to the lacks and gaps in the mind of the "normal, average man"--in other words to make the university, not a group of men who are able to pay for an education and to slip by minimum entrance requirements, but a community of students and scholar-teachers eager for learning and understanding. --Daily Princetonian...
...agree with the President, but if one considers a certain amount of sacrifice and struggle necessary or beneficial as training for life after graduation, working one's way through college is not a "social waste." Furthermore, although financial independence is a primary requisite for the brilliant and creative scholar, nevertheless, to those who want only the general cultural value of a college education, our present system of self-support is adequate...