Word: scholarly
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Colonel Roosevelt, President of the United States for seven years, hero of the battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, big-game hunter, and scholar attained a rank higher than any graduate of the University. He was born in New York City October 27, 1858, and prepared for College with private teachers. In the University he became one of the most prominent men in his class. After his graduation in 1880 he studied one year at the Columbia Law School...
...journalist, through systematic and incisive articles. Few of the sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary work in many fields. Roosevelt was the living illustration of what used rather weakly to be called "the scholar in politics". He dignified learning by showing to the whole country that a man of education, a man of letters, might nevertheless be a very good fellow, a delightful host, a crack companion in the mountains, a swift counsellor in public affairs, an administrator who went at his ends like an arrow...
...assistant professors were also created by the Overseers at their last meeting. Roy Kenneth Hack was made Assistant Professor of Classics and Edward Burlingame Hill '94, Assistant Professor of Music. Assistant Professor Hack received his A.B. from Williams in 1905 and for the next four years was Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, taking the degree of B.Litt. from that university in 1909. Assistant Professor Hill was graduated from the University with a summa cum laude degree in music. He studied the pianoforte the following year with Lang, and, the year after, composition with Bullard. In Paris he was a pupil...
Colonel Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, C.B., G.C.I.E., K.C.I.E., C.I.E., the British statesman, soldier and scholar, will give in the New Lecture Hall tonight at 8 o'clock the eighth in the series of University war lectures. "The War" will be the subject of his address. The lecture tonight will be held under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and will be open to the public as well as to members of the University...
...scholar Colonel Lawrence is known for his book "The Valley of Kashmir," which is the result of his experience as Settlement Commissioner to that country in the years...