Word: scholarship
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This play was designated a "comedy" in the Folio. Modern scholarship has tried to improve the situation by setting up a sub-category of "dark comedies" for All's Well, Troilus and Cressida, and Measure for Measure. But let's face it: All's Well simply is not a comedy, dark or otherwise--unless one wants to render the term meaningless by applying it to anything with a happy or, as in this case, pseudo-happy ending. (Actually, this ending is utterly absurd, unbelievable, perfunctory, and, for a man of Shakespeare's stature, inexcusable--the sort of thing one finds...
...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 nurtured Western man. He left Hitler's Germany in the '30s, taught at the Universities of California...
...proper Bostonians were properly appalled at the way Amherst was snapping up scholarship students and leaving Harvard far behind. Good Harvardmen quickly raised an $11,350 fund of their own; soon it was known as the Lowell Trust, after the Lowell family treasurers, who began running it in their spare time during the Civil War. In 1922 the job fell to a modern and most civic-minded Lowell, astute Banker Ralph of the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. By last week, when he finally decided to hand the reins over to Harvard itself, the fund had lent...
...centuries Harvard has connoted truth, scholarship, and culture. I find the connotation valid. Evidence of the institution's discovery of truth, and achievement of scholarship is so manifest in the history of the world that words are inept. I prefer, therefore, to use the allotted space in recounting an incident in the area of that somewhat nebulous realm called the culture of Harvard...
...traveled a thousand miles to seek truth from these men of the ivory towers, because we believe in their mastery of subject matter. To date, I have been exceedingly gratified with their wealth of knowledge, and with their presentation. In the classroom I have found the professors effervescing with scholarship, and daily demonstrating that, to them, "The work is play for mortal stakes." Yes, they stand there in the heat of the day enjoying the salutary sweat...