Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity of hearing first hand the results of their long years of study. While it is true that the primary duty of the professor is to educate for future generations, still, present day society, in order to meet its problems, should be given all possible benefit of the scholar's knowledge...
...just here that the scholar can lend his aid; and no finer way for him to do so could be conceived than that furnished by the Lowell Institute. Through the means provided by the Institute, the man who has studied long on a problem is enabled to place directly before the people the fruits of his efforts. Thus scholarship joins hands with the persons of more practical bent to the end of a safer and better progress...
...been said that the standard of culture in England is higher than in the United States. If this is true, the lack of the right kind of bookshops is a contributing cause. In the mother country, every town has its antiquarian bookshop where the youth may browse and the scholar linger. It is vastly stimulating to pore over old books; to discover literature in its contemporary form. While a diamond is always a diamond, it is enhanced by its setting. So also with literature. Who can compare the joy of finding a beautiful passage on an old page...
...books which he has never found time to write was to prove that the dating of ancient pottery in England is all wrong. Though a brilliant, omnivorous student with an enormous and accurate memory, though he won Oxford's highest scholastic honor (a fellowship at All Souls), scholars would not call him a scholar. He wrote two-thirds of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his history of the Arab revolt, at odd moments during the Peace Conference at Paris; the introduction was written in an airplane flying from Paris to Cairo. At Reading railway station, the following December, the two-thirds...
There is no reason why Harvard's next President should be a scholar by profession; there is every reason why he should be a scholar by instinct. Any man who lacks genuine sympathy with the best kind of scholarship or who does not command respect for his own intellectual attainments is disqualified for holding any high position in a university. The suggestions for making a business man President and leaving educational policy to the Deans are on the wrong track...