Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college is the quotient of its tradition divided into its student body and Princeton's tradition was taking a turn. Dr. John Grier Hibben, the gentle scholar who succeeded strenuously scholarly Woodrow Wilson in 1912, had retired. Into his place, part-time and ad interim, was coming a figure as interesting in the traditional academic scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?...
...years Oregon State's president has been William Jasper Kerr, a shrewd manager, popular with some businessmen and with some of the state board whose nine active members include three college graduates. For six years Oregon University's president has been Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, a true scholar, onetime University of Wisconsin professor of political science. Dr. Hall has complained that his institution has received less money than Oregon State. Calling his a thankless job, Oregonians say that he was induced to take it after a dozen other educators declined...
...present, then the ideal might be realized. A group of students seeking knowledge of this sort and living a communal life within the University would be a powerful-generative and inspirational force. To the average undergraduate Harvard now represents merely a means to becoming a gentleman, a trained scholar, or a business man with sufficient culture to make profitable use of his leisure time. Possibly there is no way in which this view can be changed, but this much is certain: without some tangible proof, it becomes increasingly difficult to convince today's college student that the "traditional education...
...Zeuch, then 36, announced that he wished to retire as Director Emeritus, go to Europe as a Guggenheim Scholar, turn over his post to a younger man. Last summer Commonwealth got a new head, youngest college executive in the U. S. He was Lucien Koch, 24, who had been brought up on an Oregon farm, worked his way through high school as a printer's devil, studied at Commonwealth from 1924 to 1929. Director Koch studied economics at the University of Wisconsin, became an instructor in Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College. Blond, square-faced, heavyset, he is foreman...
...someone to take young Marshal Chang's place at Peiping to hold the north for him. For days he bargained frantically with three possible candidates: Ho Ying-chin. Minister of War in the Wang Cabinet; Han Fu-chu, War Lord of Shantung; old Marshal Wu Pei-fu, the Scholar War Lord. The three candidates remained coy, having discovered two highly objectionable tin cans attached to this offer: 1) the new lord of Peiping can expect no subsidy from the Nationalist government; 2) he will be expected to take the blame for the apathetic Manchurian and Japanese policy which Chiang...