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Died. Edith Hamilton, 95, unsurpassed woman classicist, a tall, spare spinster whose love and knowledge of ancient worlds smoldered for 50 years until, at 62, she wrote her masterpiece, The Greek Way, a lucid, highly readable study of the Golden Age, then went onto examine Greece's mythology, its philosophies, and its echoes in other civilizations, and regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul awarded her the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction, the nation's highest honor; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...reason for progress is the power of the A.A.U.P. blacklist to keep away potential professors just when the South is crying for them. Another reason is the lesson of Ole Miss, where Classicist William Willis reports that segregationist "screaming" no longer scares anyone. "The faculty speaks much more freely now than it did last September," says Willis. "Oh, students still report professors to the local Citizens Council. But all we get are a few harassing phone calls." The point is clear: "A substantial portion of the faculty found that by exercising academic freedom, they have...
...years back was used as an example of silly British names by a writer in the New Yorker who made a sentence out of it: "What mo' could you ask?") He studied classics and comparative philology at Manchester and Cambridge Universities and started his academic career as a classicist. (He still maintains that classics and mathematics provide the best education one can get.) In fact, what is most irresistible about his brand of linguistics is that it depends on a broad knowledge of individual languages, history, and literature despite its rigorous use of a statistics and mathematics. "The linguist must...
Erich Segal '58, teaching fellow in General Education, won the St. Patrick's Day Super-Marathon (33 miles) in Bethesda, Md., yesterday. The Dunster House classicist led from the eight mile mark and finished in four hours and 12 minutes, qualifying for an international championship to be held in England later this year...
...language barrier is more likely ultimately to harm the scientist than it is the humanist; for while the scientist can dip into literature, criticism, and history if he is so inclined, the classicist cannot ruminate for a pleasant evening over the latest volume on automorphic functions, even were he so inclined. If the scientist cannot make contact about science with humanists, he faces the prospect of mumbling to himself about those things to which he has devoted his best energies and talents...