Word: studiousness
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Last month the trustees thought they had found their man: Rev. John Crocker, 38, studious, absentminded, enthusiastic high Churchman, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, a graduate of Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...
...packed London's grimy Old Bailey courtroom last week with skilled physicians from Harley and Wimpole Streets, earnest young medical students, smart socialites. Defendant in the case, charged with performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was seven weeks with child, was a lean, greying, studious man, Dr. Aleck William Bourne, 52, top-flight gynecologist and obstetrician...
...Chamberlain won't worry about the work Harvard men have to do because they are very "studious" anyway...
...burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased...
John Bakeless adds to this small list a careful, 404-page biography of Marlowe that pulls together a mass of recently discovered Marlowe material, explodes a few hoary Marlowe legends, but leaves the poet as mysterious and romantic as ever. Making a studious attempt to avoid scholarly language, Mr. Bakeless nevertheless spends much time answering earlier scholars, tracks many incorrect interpretations down many blind alleys...