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...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...
...Technically Readers Offer and Redmond are right. But let them consider Classicist John Milton's language in U Allegro...
Maurice Richard Grosser learned to read Homer and hunt squirrel under the tutelage of the late William Robert ("Old Sawney") Webb, white-bearded, tobacco-chewing Confederate veteran, classicist and schoolmaster in Bell Buckle, Tenn. "Old Sawney's" star pupil, Grosser entered Harvard in 1920 with the highest-in-the-U. S. college entrance marks in mathematics and Greek. Of Art he was more innocent than the youngest dauber in a modern progressive school. In 1922, when he was a restless sophomore, a leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might...
Vicente Gómez in a Guitar Recital (Decca). Three-disc album of Flamenco and other Spanish music composed (except for one number) and played by a 26-year-old Madrileño whose style is in its way as exciting as that of the great classicist Segovia...