Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first lecture here, the students acknowledged the masterpiece by applauding. At the beginning of the next class, however, the noted teacher and scholar openly thanked them for the applause but requested that they refrain from such actions in the future...
Other officers chosen were William Ketchum '41 of Lowell House and Evanston, Illinois, Second Marshal; and Julian C. Eisenstein, of Lowell House and Warrenton, Missouri. Ketchum is a member of his House committee, while Eisenstein, a national scholar, is secretary of the Mathematics Club...
Dunster succeeded Nathaniel Eaton, the first school Master, a "rare scholar" but one who fled after having corrected one of his assistants, for it is recorded that Eaton "beat him for nearly two hours with a walnut tree plant big enough to have killed a horse and a yard in length." For this disciplinary action the public demanded his discharge and a 30 pound fine...
...letters. A larger group, however, can gain lasting interest by a competent and sympathetic appraisal of a great personality. In this class belongs Mrs. Greenough's life of her husband, Chester Noyes Greenough--C.N.G. to the thousands of Harvard men who knew him as teacher, dean, house-master, and scholar-gentleman. So small was C.N.G.'s love of personal fame that, after ten years as dean in the expanding days of the Lowell administration, and five as first master of Dunster House, he could tell a friend that he had been "ten years a policeman and five years a hotel...
...lived his life, his work was done, the friends of his own age were fast dropping away. But his influence is actively at work in thousands of minds that are thinking more clearly because through voice or pen they came into contact with him. What more could a scholar want...