Word: classicist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer both at once. You can't convert both with the same argument. Aim your argument at the classicist and the popular-addict will accuse you of being high-brow. Aim your argument at the popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...
Although "the Lord" will be leaving "the manor" this summer when Professor Roger B. Merriman gives up his mastership of Eliot House, indications are that his successor, classicist Professor John H. Finley will continue the traditions which "Frisky," established upon his arrival 11 years...
...WIDENING STAIN-W. Bolingbroke Johnson-Knopf ($2.50). A sultry French teacher and an elderly classicist with a weather eye for women are violently extinguished in a U.S. university library. A girl cataloguer, playing a hunch, risks her life and traps a murderer with a peculiar motive. A capable plot enriched with gay limericks on academic life...
...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...
Sock v. Buskin Sirs: Technically and in all other respects Readers Offer and Redmond are right [TIME, March 11]. Let TIME'S editors reconsider "Classicist John Milton's language in L'Allegro...