Word: classicistic
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...opening talk the visiting classicist took as his subject "Tradition in Poetry." The classical tradition, he said, that descended from Greece was the true poetic inspiration, and all great poetry since early times had been under direct influence, and owed its greatness to the amount of its faithfulness to the tenets of that tradition, which were ecstatic adoration of primal beauty, not for the beauty itself, but for the appreciation of the transcendent spirit behind it, the spirit that has been felt by all generations of poets, and which is itself the fountain spring of all poetry...
...Some measure of control over the policies of a college should be external," declared Professor Gilbert Murray last night. The visiting classicist, from Oxford, who holds the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at the University and who will give his second lecture of the year at 8 o'clock tonight in Sanders Theatre on "The Molpe," made this reply when asked by a CRIMSON reporter for his opinion as to whether a college should be entirely self-governing...
Professor Gilbert Murray, emminent classicist and Regins Professor of Greek at Oxford University, who was named the first incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton chair of Poetry, will give his initial public lecture next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship and the purpose of which is to be instruction in poetry, in its broadest sense, including language, music and the fine arts. The first recipient of this chair, who is to come to Cambridge next fall, is Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford, a noted British Classicist and man of letters. Mr. Stillman has also made a number of gifts of books and paintings to the Widener Library and the Fogg Art Museum...
...Euripides from the Greek into English poetical form. Beginning with the "Bac- chac" and "Electra", he completed nearly all of the existing plays by the Greek dramatist, and the verse translations were acted at the Court Theatre in London from 1902 to 1907. Other important books by the English classicist are his translations of Aeschylus and Aristophanes, "Hamlet and Orestes" in 1914, and "Euripides...