Word: classicists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vermeule, Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe professor emerita at Harvard, is a distinguished classicist and poet...
...students, are highly concerned. Honig and Berkowitz have both exhibited a dedication to undergraduates during the time they have spent here, perhaps because they are serious theorists eager to impart their perspectives to a willing audience. While those perspectives are from opposite political camps--Berkowitz is a classicist, Honig a post-modernist--these two scholars had much to offer a department in need of such theorists, not to mention conservatives and women...
...political discourse. If President Rudenstine were truly committed to diversity, he would have overlooked the internecine political dissension in the department rather than the candidates themselves in making these tenure decisions. There is a pressing need both for more female Faculty members and for the continuity of a classicist presence here...
...siege of Troy and the magnificent city itself--were more than just legends. Or so he later wrote. Like many of Schliemann's tales, this one may have been a trifle exaggerated. "In general, scholars accept the fact that Schliemann told a great many lies," says David Traill, a classicist at the University of California at Davis and author of a 1995 biography of Schliemann. The man was also a war profiteer, a dabbler in black markets and a smuggler, whose wheelings and dealings have three nations squabbling more than a century after his death. Schliemann did eventually find...
John H. Finley Jr. '25, a former master of Eliot house and famed classicist, died Sunday, June...