Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose: "To know consistent differences between the brilliant man and the dullard, the scholar and the professional wrestler. . . . To know whether the brain can show what has to be born, and how much the brain we are born with can be expected to develop by use as well as suffer from misuse and disease. We must learn what we may dare to do in brain surgery. We must know more about changes under drugs and complexities of function; more about the nutritional support the brain depends upon to do its best...
...Philip Frances Samuels, Baconian scholar, editor, and independent book vendor, uncrooked one elbow from around a copy of "Ear ce Rammed," peered intently through his spectacles, and poked a long bony finger at the CRIMSON reporter. "Sure, I'm still here," said he, indicating with a jerk of his head the irregular piles of volumes stacked along the side of his hole in the wall at 30a Boylston St. "Sure, the cops've got nothing on me. They're just trying to scare me out. I don't have to have any license...
...class of 1926. As an undergraduate he was president of the CRIMSON at the time of the CRIMSON's famous campaign against the overemphasis of football. With Edward C. Aswell '26, he drew up the Student Council report which foreshadowed the House Plan. Following one year as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he returned to Harvard in 1928 to serve two years as a Freshman dean, and then, in 1929 went to New York to take up advertising work. On September 1, 1932 he was called back to Harvard to assume command of the University News Office...
...story of the "Interregnum" and the "Crisis." Then the wave of public opinion for inflation, the London conference, the N. R. A. the "Official Family," and the inevitable "Brains Trust" get their chapters. Each is handled with a careful accuracy in detail and mild enthusiasm which shows the Rhodes Scholar Lindley inhibiting the feature writer Lindley...
...infamous one day holiday upon which we celebrate the founding of San Salvador and the day after Paul Revere's ride offer the scholar little in the way of rest and relaxation or a chance to get away from it all. On the contrary coming as they do usually in the middle of the week, they merely serve to disrupt the flow of work and give to the harrassed undergraduate a day in his room or the library with nothing to do and few places...