Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question should be in people's minds, `How come a person in so many respects mediocre rises to such distinguished positions?'" Engel said. "He wasn't a great teacher, he wasn't a great administrator, he wasn't a great scholar. What more do you ask for in a [hospital director...
...peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Cyprus, Afghanistan and other volatile places. His efforts over many years not only in promoting the usefulness of the blue-helmeted U.N. soldiers but also in directly supervising their operations earned him the nickname "Mr. Peacekeeper." In 1986 Urquhart became a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation, where he spoke with staff writer Scott MacLeod...
...conferences, funded by a $240,000 grant from the Charles H. Revson foundation, are being organized by Radcliffe President Matina Horner and psychologist Virginia O'Leary, a former officer at the American Psychological foundation and a visiting scholar at Radcliffe. The goal of the conference, according to Horner, is to "get the very best people together...to think in new ways about a whole range of issues...
With only one scholar on campus per term, students would have to wait several semesters to take a course about a certain ethnic group. One or two classes every four years will hardly be enough to satisfy the interests of groups anxious to have their backgrounds represented...
President Bok approved the tenure bid of a junior professor in the Sociology Department two weeks ago, but the scholar said yesterday that he is not sure whether he will accept the lifetime post...