Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard ought surely to follow Yale and Princeton in cancelling the meaningless distinction between its A.B. and S.B. degrees by making the arts degree dependent on the field of concentration rather than on knowledge of the ancient languages. Such a change need not imply a denial by the University of the value of studying the classics. It would blot out the stigma of official favoritism which, by arousing an instinctive antagonism, has probably hindered rather than promoted a true appreciation of ancient literature and culture...
...Much Promise? Arthur Holly Compton (U. of Chicago) asked: "Is a girl smoking and listening to jazz from a loud speaker what the great electrical pioneers have been working for. ... Is our science any more likely to last than the science of the ancient Greeks? Democritus thought he had solved the problem as to what, the world is made of and how. Yet around his atoms was staged the first great fight between science and philosophy. And Socrates and Plato, the opponents of science, won that fight. Greek science failed, though the civilization based upon it survived. Was this...
Workmen rolled tubs full of pink and blue hydrangeas into the tunnel-like entrance of Burlington House early one morning last week in token that London's Social Season was about to begin. It is an ancient immutable law that The Season (when George is in his Palace and debutantes are presented at Court) starts on the first Friday in May with the Private View of the Royal Academy. The Season ends on the loth and nth of July with the Eton-Harrow cricket match at Lord...
...Literature, Ancient Authors (Honors). Emerson...
...WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 Morning. 9.15-12.15. Special Philosophical Works. Emerson J. 9.00-12.00. Anthropology (oral). Peabody Museum. 9.15-12.15. Greek Translation (Honors). Sever 29. 9.15-12.15. Literature, Ancient Authors (Honors). Emerson J. 9.15-10.45. Fine Arts (written, with slides). Small Fogg Lecture Room...