Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greek War of Independence, a lustrous Byzantine icon, an album of photographs of Greece, and rich Dodecanese Island embroideries for Mrs. Eden. It had been such a reception as in peace times might have been accorded a distinguished English poet, and went down very well with a scholar who had taken honors in Oriental languages at Oxford 18 years...
Warren M. Cannon, of Independence, Mo. and Lowell House. Cannon, a National Scholar, is assistant manager of basketball and a member of the debating council. He is an Economics and Mathematics concentrator...
...English field History 19, 40, and 42 are the key courses. McIlwain, called by Frankfurter the scholar of Harvard, makes Constitutional history interesting; Merriman treats the Tudor period from a strictly historical approach which may seem outmoded to the Marxian historian, but which is not dull; Perkins and Owen carry on to modern times with Owen receiving most of the orchids. The basic English courses are 21, 30, 40, and 52. All of these are adequate but not inspiring. Sherburn, generally considered the greatest 18th century scholar is thought dull in his presentation; Jones is called diffuse and the course...
...statements I must take exception. He says that I "befriended" the late Prof. Archibald Cary Coolidge at the Paris Peace Conference. Unfortunately, at that time I was not in a position to befriend anybody, and least of all Prof. Coolidge who was my senior in years and experience, a scholar of international reputation, and one of the chief American experts at the Peace Conference. Of course, it was the other way around. Michael Karpovich...
Today we circle Scollay Square, for the Old Howard no less than the New Lecture Hall is an integral part of Harvard life. Last year's Senior Album poll reported that the average scholar in the class of 1940 had attended three Boston burlesque performances (including one midnight show). The questionnaire also found some twenty-odd men who had been present for more than a dozen exposures. One member of the class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared in a Geography...