Word: scholarly
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Robert Hale, forthright Portland (Me.) lawyer, former Rhodes Scholar, former State representative, member of a family that has represented Maine in the U.S. Senate almost continuously since 1881. An all-out supporter of the Roosevelt foreign policy, Republican Robert Hale, 52, had to defend himself in the election against an article he wrote for Harper's Magazine in 1936 entitled: But I, Too, Hate Roosevelt* revived by toothy Democrat Louis J. Brann. Maine's voters liked Bale's defense: "I am probably the most outspoken advocate in Maine of President Roosevelt's foreign policies. Also...
Captain of the basketball team, Burditt is a member of the Student Council and a National Scholar. Eusden is captain of the swimming team and a member of the Student Council, while Drake is a member of the baseball team, the soccer team and the Student Council...
...bony Joe Brandt, who has been a Rhodes Scholar, city editor of the Tulsa Tribune, director of Oklahoma's and later Princeton's University Press, breezed into his new job with one big if unoriginal idea: the university should be a place where people learned to think. Said he: "It's time to discover a Harvard in the Middle West...
...recent years, Barry Wood, a triple-threat All-American Dean's List scholar-athlete and Ben Ticknot, a deadly tackler from his post at center, and another All-American captain, are the most celebrated. Chub Peabody, who is one of the greatest linemen in Harvard history, an All-American guard (he made every nation-wide team and collected a horde of trophies) from last year is the latest addition to the Crimson Football Hall of Fame...
Another famed Harvard character is "Copey"--Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, the second in the immortal trio of "Kitty and Copey and Bliss." "Kitty" was Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, renowned Shakespearean scholar, who died a year ago, while "Bliss" was Professor Bliss Perry, beloved English teacher. Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and his readings have thrilled thousands. Annually be 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." About each of these the legends are never-ending...