Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of public lectures on Oriental art will be given at Harvard University by Laurence Binyon, noted British scholar and author, it was announced today at University Hall...
...Beta Kappas, in whose learned magazine The American Scholar this description of a future face appeared this week. know Dr. Thomas Hall Shastid of Duluth. as a serious, prodigious eye specialist, lawyer, novelist, translator, editor, inventor, pacifist.* His pastime is to visit zoos with an ophthalmoscope with which he peers into the eyes of fish, birds, snakes and beasts. Doing likewise, remarks he in his Phi Beta Kappa article, "will prove an event in the lives of most scientists. Nor, strange to say, are very many animals averse to the use on their eyes of that instrument of investigation...
...other books. It is as literal, says she, as possible; tries to mirror faithfully the vernacular of the original; omits nothing. Readers will be glad to know, however, that Translator Buck has simplified proper names throughout. She carefully checked her translation word for original word with Chinese Scholar M. H. Lung; when it was finished went over it again with "another Chinese friend...
...scientists of the 12th Century were theologians. The Church was not only the narrow way of salvation but the only road to knowledge. When Peter Abelard sought fame as a scholar he inevitably became a tonsured celibate. Within the frame of orthodox Catholic theology (once thought sufficient to contain the universe) Abelard was not only a brilliant scholar but a bold thinker. Envious' and less able enemies had maneuvered him out of one hall of learning after another, but wherever he was he drew throngs of worshipful listeners. Authoress Waddell's narrative finds him at the peak...
...Author, a 40-year-old Parisian who divides his year between France and the U. S., is rare among unofficial ambassadors in being properly and adequately accredited. A brilliant scholar who has taken every degree open to a professor in France, he knows more about the U. S. and U. S. history than the vast majority of U. S. citizens. No myopic flatfoot, Professor Faÿ served nearly five years in the War, emerged with the rank of captain, the Croix de Guerre (won at Verdun), the Medaille de Leopold II. Twelve years ago he began to make regular visits...