Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Ontario, where C.C.F. has had most practical success, came suave Edward Jolliffe, a Rhodes Scholar turned radical, who knows how to make leftwing doctrines seem ordinary to the orthodox...
Barry Wood was the Crimson's All-American Dean's List scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...
Today we circle Scollay Square, for the Old Howard no less than the New Lecture Hall is an integral part of Harvard life. A poll of a Senior Album several years age reported that the average scholar in the Class of 1940 had attended three Boston burlesque performances (including one midnight show.) The questionnaire also found some 20-odd men who had been present for more than a dozen exposures. One member of the Class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared...
...Generalissimo recited the testament of Sun Yat-sen and reached for the single sheet of white paper inscribed with the oath of the Presidency. The Generalissimo, in full-dress uniform, was taut, expectant; his decorations gleamed and his immaculate white gloves moved restlessly. Kuomintang Elder Wu Chih-hui, scholar and veteran of 1911, solemnly handed the new President the great jade seal, wrapped in red silk, and Chiang was ready to deliver his Double Ten address, doing double duty as his inaugural...
...Learning." There Turner made a fine teaching record only to be fired in 1934 by Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman. With this ousting, the Chancellor started something. Investigation by a professional committee of highest standing convicted the "Cathedral" of persistent violations of academic freedom, and found Turner a first-rate scholar and educator who had not tempered his opinions to possible sources of extra endowment. The only thing his colleagues could find against Turner was a certain "impulsiveness," a dynamism which provoked extreme reactions, either favorable or the opposite...