Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred Einstein, famous musical scholar and editor of the third edition of the Koechel catalogue of Mosart's works' will lectures as "The Handwriting and Creative Methods of Mosart" tonight in Paine Hall at 8:15 o'clock...
...spent the following year in England as a Rodes Scholar, mixing academic with journalistic endeavor. Leaving Cambridge, he joined the Philadelphia Public Ledger, for which he covered the Greco-Turk War and the advent of Mussolini. In 1925 the New York Times sent him to report the Riff War. He was assigned successively to the Times' Vienna and Geneva bureaus, and after a year on their cable desk in New York he was sent back to take charge of the Geneva office. Although he is now on an indefinite leave of absence, he has been transferred to the paper...
...most anyone said last week for Leslie Burgin was that he is a scholar. He has been known to use as many as 20 different languages in one day's interviews. But as an administrator he was constantly damned last week with the faint word "capable." He has been an M. P. since 1929, Minister of Transport since 1937. Best guess as to the reason for the choice: Neville Chamberlain chose a second-rate man to please business interests, who will be irked by the whole idea, would be doubly irked if an energetic man were put in charge...
...must to all great men, a debunking came to Socrates this week. The debunker, University of Wisconsin's Professor Alban Dewes Winspear, is a tall, slim scholar, British-born, educated in Canada and at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar). He has a pedagogic urge to prove that "being in the field of classics doesn't make one an old fogy." Who Was Socrates?* is calculated to make old fogies furious...
McMahan a Top-Ranking Scholar...