Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opportunities to continue teaching are open to those retired professors who do not wish to remain in Cambridge. 'Many colleges and universities are more than willing to accept an emeritus professor from Harvard as a guest lecturer. Recently, the John Hay Whitney Foundation established a program for retired scholars in the humanities which pays professors an average of $7,500 a year to teach at small liberal arts colleges all over the country. This plan enables the small, less heavily endowed colleges to acquire the services of a great scholar whom they might not otherwise be able to afford...
...dilemma. Most of the older professors have dominated their respective departments for decades, and the University feels that the younger man ought to have a chance, too. Thus, while retirement may be sometimes unfair to the older man, retention could certainly hamper the career of the rising young scholar...
...science is necessary to the preservation of freedom, he pointed out, freedom is necessary to the overall advancement of science. "It is in this strong conviction that I particularly stress the freedom of the scholar and the researcher." On the other hand, the scientific specialist must "understand that his first responsibility to himself and to his country is to be a good citizen. Above all he must comprehend how his own work fits in effectively in promoting the national welfare...
Born in Nova Scotia, the son of a clergyman, Dean Simpson came to the U.S. in 1927. An Anglican priest since 1921, he had been a World War I Canadian Army captain and a Canadian Rhodes scholar at Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There...
...always been the case, the Peabody's troubles are mainly financial. The Museum is striving to make its exhibits more useful to both scholar and public by depending excessively upon a very slow process of fund-raising...