Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from under a corner of the rug. But Mendenhall's molting-bear disguise hides a man who is no organization-flouting rebel. Since he joined the faculty as a young instructor in 1937-he graduated from the college in 1932, spent three years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar-the tweed-and-patches professor has risen rapidly, proved to be an adept at faculty-meeting strategy. Masters of Yale's ten residential colleges are among the university's most respected faculty members; Mendenhall became master of Berkeley in 1949, soon won the loyalty of Berkeley undergraduates. Last...
Pete Dawkins (Army) is something more than a fine halfback. He is captain of the team, first captain of the cadet corps, president and seventh-ranking scholar of his class, hockey defenseman and musician (he plays four instruments). In Army's new wide-open offense, Dawkins specializes in slashing runs to the weak side, is the team's top pass receiver and the nation's leadiRg scorer (74 points...
...projects range throughout the curriculum, from American studies to Zoology. This year, for example, papers are being written on such diverse subjects as the later poetry of Yeats, the sociological and psychological aspects of war, Central Rhodesian federation, Karl Kraus (a Viennese journalist), and Morroccan nationalism; one Scholar is writing short stories. As Yale sorely lacks a plethora of creative writing courses, many prospective writers have taken advantage of the program to test their capabilities; in fact, there have usually been more than one creative writer in the program...
...responsibilities of a Scholar of the House are "not for the average, or even the above-average student who has no precisely defined or dynamic interest," Sewall says. "The program has been designed as both a challenge and a symbol: a challenge to those personally and intellectually equipped to respond, and a symbol, to all the rest, of self-induced scholarly and creative work going on independent of the larger undergraduate framework of compulsions and restraints...
Although "very impressive," the title "is both meaningless and misleading," one of the Scholars confesses. For neither is there a Scholar in each of the ten Yale colleges, nor are all of those in the program engaged in scholarship...