Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge has taught Shakespeare and Latin there for 30 years, has been vice-rector for 18. He and his predecessor went to school (Cambridge Latin and Harvard) together...
...more distraction for the aspiring summer scholar will be the temptation to indulge in sidewalk engineering at the southwest corner of the Yard, where the ground was broken last week for construction of the new $1,500,000 Lamont Undergraduate Library...
Salt water bathing, traditional balm of the summer scholar, will have to be left to the schrod for the next few days at least, according to local weather experts who predicted a week-long cold snap last night...
Family Tradition. The man with the new broom is no political hack. He is a scholar who has written five volumes on Ecuador's pre-Inca history, promises nine more. His 40,000-volume library, complete with a museum, is one of the best on Ecuador's early history...
Ernest Cadman Colwell, President of the University of Chicago, former Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School and author of religious books. Doctor of Divinity. Citation: "New Testament scholar of distinction, able executive and leader of the faculties, the president of a university of world renown...