Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, it was not all roses for Tatum, even at Maryland. The university was criticized for overemphasizing football; in one year the school handed out 93 scholarships, averaging $944 each, to Tatum's players. When Dr. Wilson Elkins, a Rhodes scholar and onetime University of Texas quarterback, was named president in 1954 and set out to raise Maryland's academic standing, Tatum got itchy feet. In 1956, taking a salary cut from $18,500 to $15,000, Jim Tatum went home to North Carolina. Said he with a rum-Wing chuckle: "I'm going back to North...
Harvard's .benign, bemused Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 70, world-renowned interpreter of ancient Greek humanism, one of the first scholars to bear Harvard's exalted University Professor title. At nine, German-born Classicist Jaeger fascinatedly read his first Latin grammar straight through, at 25 took over the University of Basel's Greek chair, once occupied by Nietzsche. His biography of Aristotle (1923) revolutionized classical scholarship when he was still a young professor at the University of Berlin; his monumental Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture is a three-volume university, a gold mine of the ideas that...
...rested unidentified for more than a century in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It is the work of a minor Swiss artist named Pierre Eugène du Simitière, who settled in Philadelphia and became Jefferson's friend. Paul Sifton, an American scholar and Du Simitière expert, last week showed evidence that the picture's subject is really Jefferson, done from life at 33 at the time of the Declaration of Independence...
...diplomat in knowledgeable answers to the committee's polite questions, impressed members with a pin-striped academic pedigree. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University (Phi Beta Kappa,'31), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Certificat Avancé from France's Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic...
Scattered over 1,254,000 sq. mi. of Arctic waste, Canada's 11,000 Eskimos for centuries have spoken a complicated language. The Eskimo can pack whole sentences into a guttural syllable or two, commands 10,000 to 15,000 words-a scholar's quota-just for everyday discourse. He gives some of his verbs hundreds of forms, one for each subtle shade of meaning.* But the Eskimo has never printed the words he speaks. Last week, from the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources in Ottawa came the first serious effort to put the Eskimo...