Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colorado College, founded by a Union general, last week also reached for a West Pointer instead of a scholar. Its new head: lean, weather-beaten Major General William Hanson Gill, 61, who rebuilt the shattered 32nd Division after the Buna campaign, led it back to Leyte (TIME, Dec. 4,1944), defeated General Yamashita...
...meaningful body of knowledge, and which took into account the differences in training and ability of individual students. That mechanism is known as Tutorial. Now tutorial--once the distinguishing feature of a Harvard education--is on the defensive. It's the exception rather than the rule. The genuine scholar, if he uses good judgment in choosing his courses and in going beyond the required minimum of work in order to organize his courses into a meaningful pattern, can make the most of his opportunity to study at the nation's number one college." The average undergraduate, not quite an honors...
Tall and just beginning to gray, McNiff at thirty-five has spent more time in libraries than many a bent and wrinkled European scholar, and if he has not studied all the time, he has at least kept himself well occupied. Back in 1933, the year he graduated from Boston College with his A.B. in Philosophy, he began the battle of the books in Newton. Public Library. Things are usually uneventful for a small town librarian, but McNiff never gave them time to get that way. Not content to sit in a branch library and philosophize, he took courses...
...president had a majestic mien, a Wall Street manner and a Midas touch, which eventually brought to Columbia $120,161,727. He was a new kind of college president, of a type now familiar: an administrator, a speech maker, a fund raiser, and not too much of a scholar...
...that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman, is a gentleman and a scholar, and no man to let Labor...