Word: butlering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Morris' verse translation (1887) of the Odyssey came nearest to doing it poetic justice in modern English.* Well-known prose translators-Samuel Butler, S. K. Butcher, T. E. Lawrence-have put it into their own idioms, neither Homer's nor that of poetry. E. V. Rieu's is the best of the more modest prose translations intended as transparencies, making it easy for the reader to follow the Odyssey as a wondrous novel of adventure...
Those elected from the September graduates were: John J. Butler '44 of 63 Ellery Street and Lacrosse, Wis; Heinz F. Eichenwald '47 of New York City; Colin F. N. Irving '45 of Brookline; Frank W. Reeb '44, of 371 Harvard Street and Dwight, Ill.; David Z. Robinson '47 of Perkins Hall and Westmount, Quebec; Donald H. Shively '44 of 95 Prescott Street and Upper Montclair, N. J.; Richard A. Silverman '46, of Washington, D. C.; and Charles P. Slitcher '45, of Cambridge...
...after Nicholas Murray Butler got the board started, the first 973 test-takers were private-school graduates who had taken pretty much the same studies. It was easy for the board to hit on a half-dozen broad essay questions, fairly testing their factual preparation, their grasp of ideas, their literary style. The 46,087 boys & girls who took the College Boards last year were just too many and various to grade in the old way; more than half of them were public-school students-products of a dozen different curriculums. Four years ago, the board tossed out the essay...
Minor Golf H: William H. Butler '46; James W. Hubbell, Jr. '45 ocC; Charles W. Mulcahy, Jr. '43 ocC, Captain; William F. Rickenbacker '49; Edward M. Tuckerman '43 ocC; Paul Coste '45 ocC, Manager...
Major Baseball H: Malcolm H. Allen, Jr. '48; James S. Apthorp '45 ocC; William M. Ayres '47; William A. Barron, 3rd '45 ocC; Paul F. Butler '44 ocC; John E. Coppinger, Jr. '48; Armen K. Essayan '49; William R. W. Fitz '46; John H. Forte '46; William J. Harford '48; John H. Knowles '47; Saul Mariaschin '47; Ralph Petrillo '49; Joseph P. Phelan, Jr. '43 ocC; Nicholas Rodis '49; Donald B. Swegan N.R.O.T.C. Captain; Norman L. Wholley '47; Karl J. Bauer '48, Manager...