Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight the College of Charleston (S. C.) held its commencement, announced it had intended giving an LL. D. to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett who went down with the Akron. Last week Amherst College, at a special convocation, gave an LL. D. to Newton D. Baker. Citation: "Scholar in the fields of history and political science, leader in your chosen profession of the law, most beloved and trusted in your city, Cleveland." Said Lawyer Baker: "The U. S. is in the League of Nations now and the Senate doesn't know...
...brothers will testify that "Rufe" has shown those same qualities ever since. Quiet, retiring, the family scholar, he has kept on pulling the stroke oar, a sagely sober counselor and friend to his brothers. He cannot remember off-hand how many utilities companies he has headed. He was economic adviser to the U. S. experts who drafted his brother's "Dawes Plan," assistant to Owen D. Young when Mr. Young was Agent General of Reparations. Sir Josiah Stamp has called him one of the U. S.'s greatest economists. Yet until he took the Chicago Fair...
...with Distinction in General Studies, quite separate from that with the cum laude in a special field. For certain borderline cases where there has been a late change of field, or where the student does not wish to specialize as much as honors would require, for distinction between the scholar and the man who has done a minimum of work, this would adequately fill the place of general honors...
...rest of his first 100 years. He lived on herbs and plenty of rice wine. When asked for his secret of long life. Li Ching-yun gave it readily: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog." The "Scholar War Lord" Wu Pei-fu. not satisfied with this formula, took Li into his home and was lectured on "how to get the most out of each century" by maintaining "inward calm." Some said he had buried 23 wives, was living with his 24th. a woman of 60, had descendants...
When Andrew William Mellon looked about for a place to send his boy Paul to boarding school, he chose Choate School at Wallingford, Conn, largely because of a sturdy, athletic scholar on its faculty, Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from Chesapeake Bay. Some 30 Storm King...