Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FAMED in the scientific world as one of the few men, if not the only man, who could understand the intricate mathematics of Harvard's most famous higher mathematician, Benjamin Pierce, Thomas Hill is equally famed in the educational world as being not only an able scholar, but a sensible and efficient administrator. This life of Harvard's Twentieth President, Mr. Land has designed "to be merely an introduction of Dr. Hill to the world he left forty-two years ago." Few today are left who could expound the educational and mathematical theories of this...
...attracted to the University, one must consider with care the position of the new comer. The name of Harvard, many feel, is no longer alone adequate to attract a scholar. More tangible recognition of his worth must be offered to bring even very small mountains to our Mohammed. For many years feeling has run high against the age-old Harvard custom of promotions on the basis of academic seniority. In the past, slow indeed has been the rise to fame of the young mind. He has had to wade patiently through a series of one and three year appointments before...
Perhaps it would be difficult to call Mr. Andrews, in this case, a scholar without compromise for there is the element, as there must be in any series of lectures of popularization of the subject in an effort to be interesting to a laity. Accuracy is not sacrificed to this end, but one has the feeling that the book cannot be "the paradise of the true scholar...
...composite team made up of Yale and Harvard competing. It was planned to have a boxing team composed of members of the Yale and Harvard boxing squads meet a team from Oxford and Cambridge. The invitation was extended through Eddie Egan, former Yale and Olympic team boxer and Rhodes scholar at Oxford...
...meaning thereby his companions, the other boys, he uses the word in an older sense than the Oxford man does when he speaks of the English "fellows." A "fellow" was a companion, a comrade, a mate, before he was a holder of a share in a college, an honorary scholar. In Bible times, the significance of the word had passed, in its general use, into the sense of a partner, or sharer, as in "Why smitest thou thy fellow?" and "a fellow also with Jesus," but it also has the sense of a trivial or disreputable person, as in "this...