Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jacques Barzun, 37-year-old son of a French scholar, was only nine when he taught his first class. That was in France during World War I, under the so-called Lancaster system, by which older pupils teach the younger. He followed his father to the U.S., found himself advanced enough in French, mathematics and philosophy to start a small tutoring business, worked his way through Columbia by ghostwriting on the side. Graduating in 1927 at the head of his class, he was promptly hired to teach at his alma mater and has been at it ever since...
Instigators were Democrat J. William Fulbright, former Rhodes Scholar and Arkansas University president, Republican H. Alexander Smith, onetime Buchmanite, Hoover Relief staffer, now an internationally-minded lawyer. They called their colleagues together, drafted the letter, got it approved by Senate leaders of both parties. It was signed by all freshmen Senators, ten Democrats and six Republicans...
...living persons who have received the Order include David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England during the last war; Augustus John, one of the world's outstanding portrait painters; and Professor Gilbert Murray, eminent Greek scholar and active in the League of Nations. Whitehead, the most recently honored, is an author and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge...
Died. George Higgins Moses, 75, caustic, critical Republican Senator (1918 to 1933) from New Hampshire; of coronary thrombosis; in Concord, N.H. A Greek and Latin scholar, thin-lipped, Maine-born Senator Moses specialized in the crushing word. Sample phrases: "sons of the wild jackass" (insurgent Western Senators); "four more years of diminuendo" (on the re-election of Calvin Coolidge). Buried by the 1932 Democratic landslide, he remained thereafter, in his own phrase, "only a nuisance value to the Republican Party...
...Ambassador to Spain, Armour will replace a diplomat of a different type. A Columbia University history scholar, known to U.S. college students for his four-volume History of Modern Europe, Carlton Hayes had no diplomatic experience until he went to Spain in 1942. A front-rank Catholic layman who got on well with Dictator Franco, he was often criticized, mostly by the left-wing press, as an "appeaser." To avoid embarrassing President Roosevelt in an election year, he offered his resignation. Refused then, it is sure to be accepted...