Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete appendix contains a portion of the correspondence of Peter Warren, naval leader of the affair, whose reports must prove invaluable to the scholar, as will the complete lists of the vessels used and taken in the encounter. One of the most interesting features is a contemporary account of the expedition which appeared week by week in The New York Weekly Post-Boy, one of the few newspapers of the day. For the genealogically minded who are eager to trace the prowess of their ancestors in this greatest of colonial expeditions, the editor has most kindly included a complete index...
...submitted a perfunctory resignation last month. Andover is looking for a headmaster. Last week another name went on the list, with the announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president of Olivet College (Mich.) for two years. Before that he was for eleven years president of the University of Washington, where it is still said that his wife forbade...
Lawrence Binyon, noted British scholar and author, has been named holder of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry for the year 1933-34 to succeed T. S. Eliot '10, the present holder, it was announced last night...
This new step should supplement the American scholar in presenting the work of Phi Beta kappa to the world. It can scarcely be denied that whatever constructive movements may have been furthered individually by its members, the casual character of its alumni organization has made it difficult to assess the productivity of the society as a whole. The lack of emphasis upon the social features of its collegiate branches, in itself appropriate, has had the result of leaving it heterogeneous and disunified. It is to be hoped that this alumni fusion will facilitate important collective contributions to intellectual activity. Certainly...
...rations well-balanced, there is much need of a menu for magazines. Aside from the fecundity of the Ballyhoo magazines, the growth of periodicals has been alarming, making life hectic for the student who would be well-read in the modern world, and hard for the graduate scholar who seeks for his special information...