Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, gentle little man with big ears and dreamy eyes, he has the calm, sad face of a moonstruck mystic. The look is misleading. A Puritan in his personal life, abstemious, logical in argument, part Indian, part Italian, philosopher, archeologist, scientist, scholar, Lombardo is a man of power. No longer head of C.T.M. , he is still leader of the C.T.A.L., the loosely knit Confederation of Latin American Workers. That fact, last week, was the key to his mission...
India is nothing if not selfconscious: Indians derive both humor and a satisfying sense of tragedy from their hopelessly internecine differences. As Sadhu Singh Dhami, a distinguished Sikh scholar, said last week: "The cow is sacred to the Hindus and pork repulsive to Moslems. . . . The Hindus are rather noisy in their ritual and greet an interesting variety of mute gods with a blare of conch shells and din of gongs, while the Moslems' worship of Allah is austere and silent and includes a bit of healthy physical exercise. The Moslem is circumcised, while the Hindu is not; the Moslem...
...scientist, scholar, writer or artist who is awarded one, a Guggenheim Fellowship usually means a year of extracurricular leisure to work unhurriedly on a pet project. But last week the Guggenheim Foundation, awarding 82 fellowships for the coming year, found it necessary to warn its fellows that this is a year when leisure cannot be guaranteed; its awards are subject to interruption for calls to Government service. Example: Stanford University's Dr. Merrill Kelley Bennett, who went to Honolulu last summer as a Guggenheim fellow to study food, wound up as a statistician in the Food Control office, keeping...
Robert S. Schwontes of Lowell House and Lancaster, Wisconsin. A National Scholar for three years, he won the Jacob Wendell Scholarship last year and concentrates in History and Literature. He was also a member of the Union Library Committee his Freshman year...
William McN. Thomson of Lowell House and West Palm Beach, Florida. A concentrator in History and Literature, he has been a National Scholar for three years. He won the Wendell prize and the annual award of the History and Literature Department for 1940-41. He is a member of the German club and was on the Council of History and Literature Concentrators last year...