Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realm of ancient cultures, the Harvard staff will be assisted by one of England's most brilliant Greek scholars. Dr. Cecil M. Bowra, Senior Tutor since 1933 of Wadham College, Oxford, will give courses in Homer's "Odyssey" and in "Greek Lyric Poetry of the Fifth Century." At the age of 19, Dr. Bowra fought in France with the Royal Field Artillery. Upon graduating from New College, Oxford, in 1920, he specialized in the study of Classical Greek Poetry, and has published several works, including "Tradition and Design in the Iliad," 1930; "Ancient Greek Poetry," 1933; "Greek Lyric Poetry...
...General Riquelmo. This broadcast was a midriff laugh to all Spanish officers who know the stuff of which their West Pointers are made. With a rabble overrunning the town of Toledo, some 400 middle class women and children sought shelter with the cadets in the Alcázar, an ancient fortress-castle with walls six feet thick built on one of the most commanding and impregnable piles of mountainous rock in Spain...
...Harvard's Tercentenary Celebration in their robes of black, scarlet, gold. Up to President James Bryant Conant and Harvard's Fellows, waiting on the dusty stage, they filed like graduates in some fabulous commencement. First, according to seniority, came swarthy Professor Saleh Hashem Attia from that most ancient university, Al-Azhar, founded at Cairo in 970 A. D. Lanky, bespectacled President Conant, trying to keep the golden tassel of his mortarboard from slipping forward as he bowed, pumped Professor Attia's hand, drawled: "How do you do?" Next came delegates from Bologna, Paris, Oxford. Then...
...brought with him ancient memories, long since forgotten by successive Classes or Editors. His chief pride was the first issue of the Magenta, ancestor of the Crimson. On the evening of January 25, 1873, ten members of the Class of 1874 assembled in the rooms of Mr. Cirrk. These were Eugene Nelson Aston, Samuel Belcher Clarke. Thomas Corlies, Frank Child Faulkner, George it win Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Henry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson...
...pens of two English humor lie come these burlesque and some. times not unamusing remarks on business and the law. Mark Spade's little book discusses efficiently, production, distribution and allied topics under the head of running a bassoon factory in separate chapters, each (in the best and most ancient Punch tradition) with a mangled quotation from Shakspere as its introduction. A. P. Herbert has made a collection of strange and unusual law-cases involving outworn precedents and statutes, which are often ridiculously funny and usually point a good moral. Herbert's first case is the funniest, and from...