Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter and the others on Rube had been plenty sore when people claimed there never was any such hero as Reuben James. That was when they named destroyer 607 (laid down at San Francisco last July) Daniel Frazier. Some scholar had dug into the books and found that the Rube James yarn was a phony; that the name of the hero who saved Stephen Decatur was really Daniel Frazier, and that was why the Department called 607 the Daniel Frazier. The boys on Rube refused to believe...
...actually increase the number of trained men available for defense. Compiling the data and making it easily accessible will go far towards preventing trained men from wasting their talents in a tank while some obscure defense industry or Army office cries out for a skilled palcobotanist or Sanskrit scholar...
...There is practically no undergraduate interest, and certainly no important one, which has not been shared and furthered by National Scholars," declares the pamphlet. "In each of the classes in which National Scholars have graduated, one of the class marshals has been a National Scholar...
...Freshman year the National Scholar is expected to make honor grades," declares the report. Of the 131 Yardling National Scholars in the classes of 1938-43, 105 have been in the first three rank lists. Besides continued high scholastic standing, they must be well-recommended by the instructors in order to receive a reward for the next three years...
When Franklin started the Junto (council), a mutual self-improvement society, among his "ingenious acquaintances," he was a stripling of 21, and his fellow members (a joiner, a surveyor, a glazier, an Oxford scholar, a "young gentleman of some fortune") were not much older. Proceedings were secret and no minutes were kept, But Franklin revealed some of the study topics. Samples: "Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard? . . . What unhappy effects of intemperance have you lately observed? ... Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind?" For excessively dogmatic answers, members had to pay fines...