Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chin P'ing Mei ends Hsi Men's story here. But a sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...
...Education. Beginning with the Class of 1914, the Administration required that six of the 16 courses for the degree be in a single field and six others spread among three different fields. This, they hoped, would force every student in the College to achieve Lowell's ideal of a scholar--"to know a little of everything and something well...
...week's end (he is appealing to the State Tenure Commission), Worley was not sorry for his stand. "Controls by administrators," said he, "are a scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar Jacques Barzun, provost of Columbia University, wrote a warm personal note: "In a period when the rarity of good teaching is notorious and likely to increase, it is a rash administrator who would dismiss a competent and reliable teacher solely on the ground of not following to the letter a secondary obligation in the form...
...REVEREND AUGUSTIN BEA, 78, a German-born Jesuit scholar and one of the few men to whom a Pope has knelt; for more than 20 years he was the confessor of the late Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius wanted to make him a cardinal in 1946, but Jesuit General Janssens urged the Pope not to, because some Vatican veterans felt that Jesuits had been overly favored (Pius XI had created two Jesuit cardinals, had turned over to the Jesuits both the Vatican radio and the observatory at Castel Gandolfo; Pius XII had two Jesuit private secretaries...
MONSIGNOR FRANCESCO MORANO, 87, oldest of the new cardinals, but hale and lively-minded. A scholar with degrees in philosophy, theology, canon and civil law, physics and mathematics, he will almost certainly be one of the staff planning and preparing for the Ecumenical Council...