Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Carleton, and its new president, are like that. In the 26 years since his discharge as a World War I Army sergeant, Larry Gould has been a scholar and professor. But several times he has played hooky in the remote corners of the globe. A geologist and geographer, he went on an expedition to Greenland in 1926, to Baffin Island in 1927, and to the Antarctic in 1928 as chief scientist and second-in-command of the famed Byrd Expedition. There, with Pilot Bernt Balchen and a radioman, he nearly lost his life in a gale that...
...Brandt, an ex-Rhodes Scholar and ex-newspaperman, has successively headed three college presses: University of Oklahoma (where he wheedled out of John Joseph Mathews his Indian study, Wah'kon-tah, the first university press book to become a Book-of-the-Month); Princeton (which he left to become, briefly, president of Oklahoma), and the University of Chicago, where he has continued to publish salable books by scholars (a recent one. The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek...
...uses of scholarship. Last week, about to leave Chicago for a new job (president of the Manhattan publishing firm, Henry Holt & Co.), he expressed them at summer graduation exercises. Said he: the Ph.D. is one of education's major ills. "Consciously or unconsciously," Brandt declared, "the American scholar has . . . spent his time on minutiae while Rome burned. . . . [He] is hopelessly inadequate to give the people intellectual and spiritual leadership. And unless our people have such leadership, all the battleships, all the planes, armies and atomic bombs and all the words in the treaties of peace soon to be written...
...atomic bomb, said Brandt, "has proved there is no such thing as the absent-minded professor. When the scholar decided to turn over to the Government his knowledge of the atom, he at once assumed responsibility for the kind of Government which would use the atomic bomb. And since the Government is the people, he destroyed once and for all his right to ignore the people...
...year-old Frederick L. Hovde first caught Purdue's eye as the slight (155 Ibs.), swift Minnesota quarterback who slid through the holes made by grid-great Bronko Nagurski, to become the Big Ten's top scorer in 1928. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, became the third American ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester...