Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I kept telling them I was building." shrugs Clark, winner of a battlefield commission in Europe during World War II and captain of U.S.C.'s 1947 team. "What else could I say?" Clark was true to his word. He went as far away as the famed muscle factories of...
On the theory that Stanford had been weakened by too much scholastic inbreeding (i.e., some department heads and professors had simply floated to the top on the strength of longevity), Alway had gone scouting for new blood, and he quickly hired a dazzling array of new men for top jobs...
The Competition Animal. Ever since his birth in the Cevennes Mountains of southern France, Jacques Soustelle has been what the French call "a competition animal." Born with a double handicap-his family was poor and of France's Protestant minority-Soustelle early decided that "I had to succeed, and...
Working students, more and more common at Harvard during the past few years, established a new record this last year. Nearly one-third of the undergraduates in the College and the Summer School, highest in history, accepted employment at some point during the scholastic year.
The University of North Carolina's enduring Louis Round Wilson, 82, a prime mover in raising Chapel Hill to scholastic eminence, whose prudent management of the school's domed, 1,000,000-volume library (now named after him) made it one of the nation's best. Quaker...