Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pallid scholar is Professor J. (for James) Frank Dobie. In his years as head of the University of Texas English Department, the silver-haired, granite-faced, panther-hunting professor has spent about as much time in the shade of ranchers' chuck wagons in Texas, swapping yarns of gold strikes and bad men and vanishing longhorns, as he has in the university library. "Somehow ' or other," he once said, "I have been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado...
Recent news of the retirement of William Scott Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, has attracted more attention in international academic circles than in Cambridge, for while Professor Ferguson has in the past played a major role in Harvard administration he is known primarily as a scholar--"one of the most distinguished ancient historians of his time," to quote a colleague...
Professor Ferguson was always a scholar living in Cambridge and quietly teaching and writing books and articles on Greek history. He was one of the few American contributors to the "Cambridge Ancient History...
While Professor Ferguson was winning administrative plums, he remained the historical scholar. In 1930 he was President of the American Historical Association. Not yet 70, but four years older than the standard retirement age, Professor Ferguson will continue to live in Cambridge and to report on his investigations of history
...school's faculty, now down to 160, has included graduates of the University of Hard Knocks as well as Ph.D.s and a Rhodes Scholar. Of its students, the 5,000,000th is fairly typical: Staff Sergeant Joseph F. Webster, of Connersville, Ind., is 25 (average student age: 27), has finished high school (average level is eighth grade), is married and about to become a father (students average one child), and most decidedly has a full-time job (over 97% of I.C.S. students are employed...