Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Governor McNutt, scholar, lawyer, War veteran, onetime (1928-29) national commander of the American Legion, explained what had happened: "People today demand ACTION. We have prepared our government to permit action. . . . State government has been getting out of hand. To bring it back under control demands centralization of power and a broad grant of authority. That power has now been granted in Indiana. . . . Instead of being the servant of the people I have become the slave of the people...
...from a corollary standpoint, a very real duty; that he did not perceive the fatal anomalies of the actual business structure of the world and prescribe for them. But this constitutes no adequate basis for such an attack as this on the integrity and usefulness of the economic scholar. And one feels an ironic inconsistency in Mr. Prince's simultaneous dicta that college chairs attract only these whom the world refuses, and that the incumbents of those chairs did not save the world from disaster. The harassed capitalist's desire to pass the buck is, however, not too difficult...
...doubt if much can be accomplished by adopting a policy under which those men would be selected for promotion who are good tutors and lectures as well as good scholars. Men of this type are rare. On the other hand, I should like to see Harvard adopt a policy under which teaching ability became the main criterion of promotion in all cases. Is it not possible to differentiate between these members of the Faculty whose main job is research and those whose main job is lecturing and tutoring? Could not promotion in the first group be made to depend...
...other reasons, any answer to your second question may be quite misleading, because in the life of a scholar who occupies an academic position it is frequently impossible, and in the ideal case should be impossible, to make any real distinction between such things as "course work" and "research"; the whole problem of the philosophy of teaching is involved in this capable of telling the truth...
...could write his A B C's. At 9, a zealous, frail, brown-eyed boy, he lectured the Chicago Microscopical Society on microbes and laboratory technique, showed his own lantern slides. During a fatiguing lecture which ran far beyond his regular bedtime, he grew pale. A wise scholar picked up the child, held him inverted by his feet. Right-side up again Young Turck continued his lecture. Father Turck decided that biology excited the child too much, diverted him to mathematics, economics, finance. Fenton Benedict Truck Jr., 30, is now a vice president of the $200,000,000 American...