He would eventually argue, Underwood writes, that "he had not seen Agrarianism as a political program, but as 'a reaffirmation of the humane tradition.' " Underwood, an independent scholar, sets out to write the life of Tate as Southerner, and thus places the outer limit of his biography at 1938, after which, he says, Tate "was no longer consumed by Southern history".
In a recent study, "From Predators to Icons," the French scholars Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot set out to discover what successful entrepreneurs have in common.
Near the end of the 19th century, a French scholar, Michel Bréal, set out to determine the laws that govern changes in the meaning of words.
As a scholar, I set out to be the same way.
"There is a real hunger for information about this period, this history and these lost lives," said that friend, Chris Bartlett, a former classics scholar who has set out to rescue the memories of those lives, specifically 4,600 gay Philadelphia men who perished of AIDS in the 1980s and '90s.
Nominally this work presented to the common patron of Roeslin and Feselius was a neutral mediation between the feuding scholars, but it also set out Kepler's general views on the value of astrology, including some hypothesized mechanisms of interaction between planets and individual souls.
Scholars at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond have set out to leaf through eight million documents dating back to the 17th century, seeking the names of slaves.
Swiss legal scholars say the rules that would be set out by the referendum appear to breach the Swiss Constitution, several United Nations conventions and the European Human Rights Convention.
The years after World War II, though, brought a partial breakdown of the British opposition to American cultural anthropology, as younger scholars abandoned the tenets of comparative sociology set out by one of the discipline's founders, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown.
