Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knight"; Allan B. Ecker '41, Roosevelt's "Road to Peace"; Jonas N. Muller '40, Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"; Howard Nemerov '41, Yeats' selected poems; Elliot L. Richardson '41, excerpts from "Ecclesiastes"; John W. Sever '40, Whitman's "Song of Myself"; and Richard B. Wolf '41, Emerson's "American Scholar...
Knight McMahan '33, instructor and tutor in Philosophy, former First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, and first scholar of his class, is also new to Dean Leighton's office this year. As head proctor in Massachusetts Hall last year, his clarion call rivaled General Apted's in quieting the Yard when riot flags were flying...
...this exiled Irish statesman was something of a novelty. He was a rigid teetotaler. He was a reserved scholar who liked to solve mathematical problems, study Thomistic philosophy, play an organ. As an orator he was almost flat; he neither talked about personalities nor used extravagant imagery...
Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary is full of brilliant minds. One of them is Dr. James Moffatt, tall, thin, shy, 60-year-old Scot. Officially retired, Dr. Moffatt still teaches a course in church history. A scholar of many interests, he has written as many as five books a year; his specialty is the Bible. The Moffatt Translation, like the recent Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible, is much more colloquial than the Revised Version of 1901, now being re-revised by a committee Under Dr. Moffatt. Last week this Presbyterian pundit had a new job: program consultant for a commercial...
...author calls the book "a light book about heavy reading," and it really is aimed more at the layman than at the scholar. He has given up the idea of reforming education through working on the scholar and hopes that the desired change will come about by making the non-academic person better educated than the scholar...