Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist rather than a scholar," says George Santayana '86 in his book, "The Middle Span," harking back to the nineteenth century days when, as a member of the University, he had joined the throng at Copey's reading...
Represented in the final list of Rhodes scholars-elect were 33 states and 35 colleges. West Point was third in number of accredited scholars, with four successful applicants. Yale had one scholar...
...measure of solitude was in prospect for French Historian Bernard Faÿ (The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America; George Washington: Republican Aristocrat), onetime lecturer in U.S. universities. For compiling a giant list of French Freemasons which the Gestapo used as a directory for arrests and executions, Scholar Faÿ was sentenced in Paris to life imprisonment at hard labor...
...reward was Nanking's toughest job: restoration of railroads wrecked by eight years of invasion and civil war. Given the rank of general, Dr. Yu runs his Communications Ministry like a military chief of staff, keeps detailed "phase charts" of his repair offensives. A scholar and administrator rather than a politician, he is generally respected (even by the Reds whose saboteurs persistently blow up his rails). Handicapped by continuing warfare and overwhelming shortages, Yu gets more credit for intelligent and sustained effort than for tangible results. One realistic objective: to get all the railroads in, the Yangtze Valley...
Died. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, 85, revered Indian scholar and Nationalist, champion of orthodox Hinduism; in New Delhi. A former president of India's Congress Party, longtime friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he helped to found and was the guiding spirit of famed Benares Hindu University, which has become the center of the ancient Vedic (Hindu) culture...