Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fanciful. Born in Pittston, Pa., he belonged to a family far from obscure. Of his four brothers, all dead. Joseph, John and Austin were physicians. Brother Austin, eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...
...instructor at West Carolina University. After considerable wire-pulling, Sykes receives a stipend which enables him to study at Leipsic under the famed Professor Brockholtz. Sykes is not exactly sure as to the reasons for his selection, but the names are at least impressive. Arrived at Leipsic, the picaresque scholar is set to work counting blood corpuscles in white mice. A year later, his knowledge burnished by contact with European culture, Sykes returns to capitalize a new prestige...
...planning to make conditions as encouraging as possible for the unusually brilliant scholar the University is putting emphasis in the right place. Mr. Wernaer's proposal to induce the ablest men to choose scholarship as a career by creating a permanent position for them in the university structure is admirable. The Society of Fellows, however, is something definitely worthwhile for itself, and if endowment for the Society is available within a year or two, its establishment need not be delayed until the time, probably distant, when something like Mr. Wernaer's Institute of Research can be founded...
...personality and humanity. Today he is submerged by the necessity for cut-and-dried drilling. Dr. Fuess believes that only an enthusiastic instructor can have an enthusiastic class; this, to be sure, is best proved by his own career as a teacher. His is the old idea of a scholar and a gentleman, a sort of Henry Ryecroft with an almost tender love and understanding of his books...
...Saturday Evening Post; and no one who is neither a devotee of boxing or of the "Post" should attempt it. It has ever the inescapable capital 'I' of the humble boy who has made good, of the self made man, and of the athlete who is also a scholar, that irritates; and yet it has much that is enjoyable. Unlike Gene Tunney, Eddie Eagan ever sets himself up as a demigod, he has his weaknesses; and he never parades his "culture" and education...