Then, with money, narrow scholarship and intimidation, it proceeds to convert the non-Arabian faithful to the new, virulent Islamism.
At forty-eight, he left Harvard to become a full-time writer and to escape the academic professionalism that nurtured a university overgrown with "thistles of trivial and narrow scholarship".
And — this is always a risk run by narrow-gauge scholarship — it has resulted in the work of both artists being edited to fit the "conversations" idea.
"When I was a postgraduate student, the Warburg still had, and it probably still has, considerable intellectual clout," he observed, "but, as the rest of the scholarly world became more interdisciplinary and more Warburgian, the Warburg itself turned into a center for narrower Renaissance scholarship, believing in professional academic expertise and profoundly suspicious of newer scholarship".
The academic division of labour has come on apace since Weber's day (he died in 1920), and hardly a year has passed when someone from the cultural-decline crowd did not decry the narrowing of scholarship and bemoan what they took for its consequence: the death of the free-ranging intellectual.This concern is not foolish.
But this narrow view of scholarship does not fully support the obligations of universities to serve global societies and to improve health and health equity.
Scholarships, Scholarship, Scholarships.
I decided to narrow my list of scholarship applications and focus on those that required a task that I felt the most comfortable with: writing essays.
Aestheticians of literature like I.A. Richards, Sir C.M. Bowra, Paul Valéry, Susanne Langer, and Ernst Cassirer have had an influence beyond the narrow confines of literary scholarship and have played in our time something approaching the role of general philosophers.
They have company in the pursuit of narrow-bore regional sampler scholarship.
He was seventeen, a National Merit Scholarship finalist, with narrow shoulders, wrists you could loop two fingers around, and a head that seemed to float up like a balloon from the tether of his neck.
