Word: scholarly
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Perry Miller contributes a Faculty Credo that is more nearly intellectual history. His thesis: "When the scholar or the educator falls behind the march of the society," others will seize his position of leadership, "for leadership there must and shall be." That is the present prosect, since American education has not "fitted the American mind to cope with the issues of American life...
Charles Warren '89 of Washington, D.C. and Dedham, Mass., prominent lawyer and legal scholar, was elected President of the Harvard Alumni Association to serve for one year from the day of Commencement, June 19, at a meeting of the Directors of the Alumni Association held at the Harvard Club of Boston last night. He succeeds Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14. The Association is comprised of 79,000 alumni of the University...
Died. Professor Ludwig Harald Schütz 68, formidably learned German scholar, author of works on physics, the teachings of Confucius, the origin of language, the soul of Japan; in Frankfurt-am-Main. Master of 200 languages and dialects Dr. Schütz once put a U. S. Indian circus team in their place by informing them in their own tongue that they were not Sioux as they advertised, but Pawnees...
...cigarette chain going. But this winter there was no leisure in his walk; it was just a slow walk, and he was not smoking, and when he talked with you, he coughed at length, and the familiar smile left his face. Pierre de Chaignon la Rose had been a scholar and a dandy, but in the last few years his glory seemed to be a mere question of spats and stick-pin, though it would occasionally flash in his innumerable stories. Seeing him in full dress in the subway late at night, you could almost guess the story...
Though also born in "the Wild West" (i.e., St. Louis), T. S. Eliot is treated with more respect-the respect due a scholar and a man who for nine years held a position in Lloyd's Bank. Of The Waste Land Smith observes that "in addition to this form of a literary medley, Eliot seems to have caught from Pound [a] morbid preoccupation with squalor.-" But he agrees with "the best of all living American critics" (Edmund Wilson) that "Eliot, in ten years' time, has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other...