Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yalemen over the years he was known as "Bonnie Prince Charley"-a debonair and engaging scholar, with a flair for energetic lecturing (he virtually acted out the battle scenes). In his first years on the Yale faculty, his Diplomatic Background of the War (1916) did more than any other book to explain to literate Americans what the European war then raging was all about. It so impressed Woodrow Wilson that the President invited him to Paris in 1919 as a member of the U.S. peace delegation. After that, Seymour settled on the campus-first as professor, then as provost, finally...
...Fish, Flesh, and Foul" is a sketchy treatment of a towering theme (the natural animal cruelty of the human species toward its young). Richard Webster's discussion of a Catholic scholar's views on the supernatural seems unnecessarily esoteric, especially the final note of doom that bids us all study the Churchman carefully against the day when goblins will once more roam the earth...
...Love Me in December as You Do in May?, but he made a million friends in Manhattan. In 1912, Jimmy married his sweetheart, Janet ("Allie") Allen, to a medley of "Here Comes the Bride" and Witt You Love Me in December? All his life a 10 o'clock scholar, Jimmy was more than two hours late for the wedding. Two years later, after having served as an assemblyman, Walker was elected to the state senate, and later became the senate's Democratic leader...
...professors had no reason to worry: the questionnaires were still experimental. But by next year, they would be a major factor in deciding faculty promotions. A bad grade year after year might well lead to dismissal. Did that mean even Michigan's most cherished scholars? Said Dean Lloyd S. Woodburne: "If a man is a brilliant scholar, he must be a passable teacher. If a brilliant teacher, he must be a passable scholar." If he is all of one and none of the other, Michigan will want him no longer...
Last fortnight, Bishop Herrera himself gave a dramatic account of the job before his scholar-priests. "One day in Santander," he said, "a Communist woman was sentenced to death. She had declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake of the Holy Sacrament. Yet later, as she stood before the firing squad, that same woman raised her clenched fist to the sky and cried out: 'Viva Rusia...