Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kittredge to contribute a profactory article to my edition on "Gray's knowledge of Norse," and sign it with his initials. A look of delight came over his face. "Then I can be as pedantic as possible!" he said. The result of his cooperation was that when the British scholar, Tovey, prepared his edition of Gray, he said in his preface his edition of Gray, he said in his preface "he had found great help in the little work on Gray by Professors Phelps and Kittredge of Yale College." Kittredge laughed when I showed him this, and said, "Well...
...hardly avoid saying what does pot need to be said, that Professor Kittredge was probably the most widely learned literary scholar this country has had, and that his death marks the end of an era in scholarship as well as in the history of Harvard University...
...wildest Chaucerian scholar in America, outside of this room...
...Shakespearian scholar, toughest and most beloved of professors, who for 40 years gave English 2 died on July 23 of a heart ailment at his summer home on Cape...
Quid-chompin' "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, 71, scraggly-mustached onetime Governor of Oklahoma, has written a book called The Finished Scholar, with a special chapter on etiquette. He explained: "If a few did not write and make the sacrifices . . . deny themselves for the future weal . . . society would wreck itself...