Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Historian Sterling regards himself as no great scholar ("I'm just an ordinary guy"), is known as an able, amiable administrator. When told that Stanford's trustees had picked him out of 200 candidates, he couldn't quite believe it. "A complete surprise," says Sterling. "I'm pleased, complimented, honored and gratified...
...with Talbot. Though critics had long known of some lost Boswell manuscripts, it was not until 1926 that an inquiring scholar reported that he had seen a box of them at Ireland's Malahide Castle, home of Boswell's great-great-grandson Lord Talbot. U.S. Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach immediately cabled an offer of $250,000 for the lot. Lord Talbot huffily refused ("Who is this person?" he demanded). Another U.S. collector tried a different approach: he dropped in for tea. Courtly Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, a Yale man who had served in the British Army during World...
...Malahide papers were only the beginning. In 1936, a second wandering scholar announced that he had stumbled upon another cache of papers scattered throughout Scotland's Fettercairn House, home of Lord Clinton, descendant of Boswell's executor Sir William Forbes. Under the terms of his deal with Lord Talbot, Colonel Isham claimed those papers too, and after years of wrangling over Boswell's will, won half of them from a Scottish court. The other half, which had been awarded to the heirs of Boswell's granddaughter, he bought. Meanwhile, Malahide had yielded yet another batch...
...Nash, a 1916 Rhodes Scholar and a veteran of British Army campaigns in India and East Africa in 1917-18, is vice-president of the United World Federalists and the author of several books...
...modernize education facilities across the Dominion, things began to hum at Ottawa. A medical school was added in 1945, and $1,212,295 raised for a building to house it. The university also got a new rector, genial Father Jean-Charles Laframboise (French for the raspberry). No cloistered scholar, Le Père Recteur is ambitious for his school. Of the $250,000 grant the Ontario government gave his medical school last year he says: "It was not a grant; it was the first grant. Make no mistake of that...