Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal scholar, Wechsler is noted for his work on criminal law. He is a member of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice...
...individual's academic effort during the period of his Fellowship is important on its own merits. I believe, for instance, that the setting up of a formal program of Institute studies, which would be directed at fresh examination of given public policy questions -- combining the perspective of the political scholar with that of the political practitioner, getting Faculty members and Fellows together in harness to analyze the toughest problems facing our political system and coming up with mutual recommendations on how better to solve them -- will be an important factor in getting the Institute surely established...
...back door of the country club; he may even own the club. The professional baseball player no longer travels coach on a train; he flies by jet. It is no longer a shameful act for a Bill Bradley -a banker's son, an Ivy Leaguer, a Rhodes scholar, a student of philosophy, politics and economics-to sign a pro basketball contract. Not when the New York Knickerbockers are willing to pay him $125,000 a year...
According to the text of the fellowship, the recipient should "best exemplify the quality of humanity which John Finley has taught during his career as a scholar, teacher, and Master and which he himself so nobly exemplifies...
...death of another banker in 1949 marked the Press's major step toward solvency and the capacity to undertake large projects. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., '20, banker, architect, and amateur scholar (American Colonial Printing: Materials for a History), bequeathed about a million dollars to the Press, to be used to publish "inaccessible or hitherto unpublished source material of interest in connection with the history, literature, art (including minor and useful art), commerce, customs and manners, or way of life of the Colonial and Federal periods of the United States...