Word: classicistic
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...succeeding years, under his influence, the school grew rich and great. From Nice, France last week came word that Headmaster Alfred Ernest Stearns, 61, was resigning because of ill health. Accepting regretfully the resignation, the trustees announced that Latin Instructor Charles Henry ("Charlie") Forbes, a short, chubby, popular classicist, possessor of one of the world's best Virgil libraries, would continue to serve as acting headmaster. And Andover men everywhere began speculating as to Andover's future growth under a new headmaster, one who it is hoped may also be chosen from the school's faculty...
Last week in the U. S. many a classicist thought he saw a striking analogy between the Nemesis-like defeat of Herbert Clark Hoover and the hubris of the Republican Party during the past decade. The G. O. P. had defied the political gods by declaring it alone was "fit to rule." It had taken credit for all the good things fate bestowed upon the land. It had promised to put the entire nation comfortably on Mount Olympus. Wrote Elmer Davis in The New Republic...
Resigning. Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease, A. B., M. A., Ph. D. (Harvard), famed classicist; as president of Amherst College; to become professor of Latin & Greek at Harvard. An earnest, retiring pundit, Dr. Pease is little known to his students. He facially resembles Amherst's Trustee Calvin Coolidge, who is spoken of (without much reason) as his successor...
...wife wanted that the children should be proud of me, so I am content," said he last week. "My neighbors tell me the critics are troubled whether I be impressionist, modernist or classicist, but these things I do not understand...
Died. Dr. John Carlton Jones, 74, president-emeritus of University of Missouri, oldtime classicist, philosopher; from cerebral hemorrhage; at Daytona Beach...