Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Piana Italian Scholar...
...father was a military scholar who organized militia for Sun Yat-sen and wrote A History of Chinese Tactics and Strategy of the Past Four Thousand Years. Because Tu was an only son, the old historian did not want him to be a soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...
...every man who has ever taken the course with Professor Whiting, his lectures have been the bright spot in many a morning of dreary pedanties. Whether he is engrossed in debunking a scholar who purports to prove that someone else wrote Shakespeare's plays, describing and mimicking that maid-of-all-work, Fielding's Shamela Andrews, or stepping into the role of Charles Lamb's lunatic sister, this jovial son of Maine injects humor, pathos, and human interest into lectures that have earned him the epithet, "a one-man vaudeville show...
...gentleman's grades" scholar will be encouraged by Teele's observation that most employers place little emphasis on strictly academic accomplishment. Extra-curricular abilities and, special interests are generally regarded as more important considerations, except in the scientific fields, where college work is much more closely correlated with vocational practice...
...idea for the Mass Education Movement came to spare, spindly Jimmy Yen, now 53, when he was thousands of miles from home. A member of China's scholar aristocracy and a graduate of Yale, he went to Europe for the Y.M.C.A. in World War I, was assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken...