Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Main event of the conclave will be the symposium, "The Scholar's Contribution in a Free Society," at which President Conant will preside over a discussion headlined by several nationally-known speakers...
...next day Gliksman repeated these words to another slave laborer, Professor Strovsky, an aging Russian scholar. Strovsky, with the fatalism of those who have suffered too much, doubted if telling the West would help much: "They won't want to believe you anyway...
...chair, open only tow women, may be held by a scholar from any field of learning. It was endowed by a $250,000 bequest from Samuel Zemurray, Jr., a graduate of the Harvard Business School, who was killed in action during World War II, and his daughter...
Historian Gibbon, says Toynbee, was not the only eminent scholar to view Christianity as a menace to civilization. Anthropologist Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) regretted that the "unselfish ideal" of Greek and Roman society, which subordinated the individual to the welfare of the state, was superseded by the "selfish and immoral doctrine" of "Oriental religions which inculcated the communion of the soul with God and its eternal salvation as the only objects worth living for. . . ." The result, said Frazer, was "a general disintegration of the body politic...
Crown Publishers' chick (first printing: 30,000) has been promised front-page cockalorums in the Sunday review sections of the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hiram Haydn, the proud father, who edits the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best...