Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work in the Fine Arts, he was also known for his brilliant contributions to literature; he was particularly interested in medieval and twentieth-century writings. In recent years Professor Porter developed a special interest in Ireland, its art and its literature. He was a poet as well as a scholar...
Recurrently many a scholar looks back wistfully at the early days of Johns Hopkins University. It was housed in some plain Baltimore buildings which people thought resembled a piano factory. But its President Daniel Coit Gilman sloganed: "Men, not bricks and mortar." In the early 1880's Abraham Flexner was a student there, while Dr. Richard Theodore Ely was busy founding its chair of economic science. Largely out of Dr. Flexner's enthusiasm for the Johns Hopkins method came the Institute for Advanced Study he is building in Princeton (TIME, March 27et ante...
...dating from Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) would change their minds after reading Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji. Written some time ago (1001-15) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko, it has been a widely-known classic in Japan since 1022. When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls it "by far the greatest novel of the East and one which, even...
...Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship, traditionally awarded to the first scholar of the class, will he held by Knight Warner McMalian '33, of Flora, Illinois. A supplementary fellowship from the Shaw Fund has been awarded to Henry Tuchman Levin '33, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The other principal single award is that of the Fiske Scholarship, providing for a year's study at Trinity College, Cambridge. This scholarship, founded in 1919 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Fiske, Jr. of Boston in memory of their son, Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, has been awarded to Peregrine White '33, of Beverly...
Against Classics Professor John Andrew Rice, onetime Rhodes Scholar, brother-in-law of President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, there stood last spring the curious accusations of 1) whispering in chapel, 2) creating campus cliques, 3) swimming insufficiently clad in Florida's warm waters. President Holt asked Professor Rice quietly to resign. Professor Rice declined. Presently President Holt discovered the American Association of University Professors was looking into the case. At once President Holt fired Professor Rice. Then two Oxonians on the Rollins faculty expressed sympathy with Professor Rice. Out went one and the other resigned. Meanwhile...