Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editors Frederick Morgan, 25, an ex-G.I., Joseph Bennett, 26, a Navy veteran working as an investment analyst in Wall Street, and William Arrowsmith, 23, a 1948 Rhodes scholar, have been two years launching Hudson Review. As a nonprofit literary venture, they got $6,600 in working capital from friends (who hoped to deduct the contributions from taxes), and for a mailing address used the Manhattan home of Morgan's father, Sapolio Soapmaker John Williams Morgan...
Jane Connor '51, president of the Freshman Class, spoke for opposing Annex factions. "The real scholar who comes to Radcliffe for study only, would be paying for clubs and publications favored by a majority," she protested, and added tersely, "Clubs need members, too. You can't run clubs on money alone...
...course, there are some who think this is fortunate. The recluse-scholar and the complete individualist do not find it a congenial place: tending to cliques, the majority of Mastodons enjoy a good time, combining bibulous enthusiasm with a paradoxical apathy...
...Fixes. Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, hurried to Detroit to investigate. Obviously, big-league hockey couldn't stand the kind of black eye that the Black Sox Scandal had given baseball in 1919. Greying Clarence Campbell, a Rhodes scholar and ex-hockey referee, went into conference with Michigan's Governor Kim Sigler, bustled vigorously about Detroit for a few days, then announced triumphantly: "Nobody fixed anything anywhere...
Last week, without notice, they fired Wernette. Protested editors of the student paper Lobo: "Wernette is an educator and a scholar and evidently could not play politics. . . . The university is , on the bottom of the national credit list now. ... If something isn't done about our so-called 'Board of Regents,' our diplomas will be scholastically worth about as much as Confederate money...