Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teacher in science and unnecessary to a teacher in the humanities, but that it should be pursued in a different way, with a different mental armament. Mr. Chase sees only the differences and misses the common element, that research is a necessary element in the creation of a scholar and teacher, either in chemistry or classics, though very different in procedure and method in the two cases...
...Chase assumes that the latter type is within the meaning of the President when the President says "scholar." I think Mr. Chase has raised a straw man. In opposition he offers a picture which I must say seems to me an ideal secondary school master leading youth to great books by the example of his own love of them...
Higher than physical comfort the scholar holds adequate time for research. To classroom duties which distract him at every university, Harvard adds tutorial work. Tugged three ways at once, the scholar finds himself spread thin. President Conant would ease the classroom strain...
President Conant knows how to use money to please other scholars. For the scientist: special laboratory equipment. For the historian: books, manuscripts. For the economist: secretarial aid. And every scholar yearns to see his precious but non-commercial findings in print. With such satisfactions would President Conant lure the world's best scholars to his Cambridge fold...
...Scholar-Writer Bliss Perry retired almost three years ago and Humanist Irving Babbitt died last July, but Harvard still has giants in its English department. One of them is tiny, big-voiced John Livingston Lowes, 66, keen student of the Romantic Movement. He is perhaps the most brilliant U. S. example of the great scholar-teacher whom President Conant wants on his faculty. Another giant is snowy-bearded George Lyman Kittredge, 73, bon vivant, Chaucer and Shakespeare authority, prime link between Harvard's past & present...