Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious that graduate study ought primarily to be a training in independent research, since the scholar's aim is not merely to master the present body of knowledge, but to increase it. Ideally, many courses, now open to graduates ought to exclude them, since such courses frequently take a year or half-year to dole out information which the student himself could assimilate in a fraction of that time. (History courses are notorious offenders in this respect.) At the worst, such courses ought to direct the graduate to fruitful subjects of original research; these are frequently remote from the main...
...Although we are attempting to maintain a "splendid isolation" and play a lone hand, our whole policy is bringing us closer and closer to the League of Nations," the noted scholar of world affairs continued. "We are more likely to be dangerously involved in the Far East, if we continue to play this lone hand. As things are now, we enjoy the disadvantages of both being a member and a non-member of the League, and the advantages of neither. At present, we have one foot in and one foot out of the League. Although our consul at Geneva...
Through the torchlit streets of Providence, R. I. one night last week parading G. O. Partisans carried placards with such slogans, mocking Theodore Francis Green, 65, lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University and Democratic nominee for Governor. When Mr. Green was picked to oppose Governor Norman Stanley Case for reelection, Republicans softly whispered that he was effeminate. Democrat Green's retort took the form of a full-page advertisement in the rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public...
...Johnson was appointed to teach English and was paid with funds which came indirectly from the city treasury. While so employed, he found time to take a leading part in a communist club. When he spoke on political subjects his words were not the words of a scholar; they were the opinions of an ordinary layman. Academic sanctity no longer protected him. If he, as a layman, conducted himself in such a way as to increase influences which the authorities considered undesirable from the point of view of the general welfare of the college, of the city, and of society...
...word might be said about Dr. Blossom's translation. In many ways it lacks that which made C. K. Scott-Moncriess' translation, one of the best examples of the art in English. The Classic flavor, for instance, of that great scholar's prose, so admirably suited to the epic "Remembrance of Things Past" is, has disappeared. On the other hand, Dr. Blossom has a marvelous command of the colloquial idiom which brings out another side of Proust's French. But in any case, "The Past Recaptured" is a vast improvement over the former translation, never published in this country, titled...