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...includes two Nobel Prizewinners (Physicists I. I. Rabi and Hideki Yukawa) and three winners of Pulitzer Prizes (Composer Douglas Moore, Historian Allan Nevins, Poet Mark Van Doren). It is also a reservoir of talent that serves the whole metropolis. Such men as Philosopher Irwin Edman, Critic Lionel Trilling and Classicist Gilbert Highet are full-fledged city celebrities. Economist Carl Shoup wrestles with city finances; Historian Harry Carman serves on the Board of Higher Education, and a slew of geologists and planners struggle with the city's water and traffic...
...students run the gamut from A (Abbott, Adams, Atwater, Atwood) to Z (Zalecki, Zapata. Zen, Zezza, Zizzamia). The 1.278 freshmen represent 526 different schools, more than half of them public high schools, and four out of every ten students get financial aid. It is quite possible, says Classicist John Finley, to have in one house "the grandson of one of the greatest modern novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson of God [i.e., the son of the Aga Khan]." But the days...
Socially, the mathematicians and humanists mix well. Marston Morse, mathematician and a resident tutor at Eliot House until 1935, compared the collaboration favorably with that at Harvard. "Scientists and classicist mingle more here than we did in Cambridge," he said. "The ideal of the Institute is that scholars meet and teach each other on a plane of equality...
...they are in composition. In No.1, says Critic Venturi, "everything is realized in the spirit of the characters rather than in the demonstration of the event." But in Nos. 2 and 3, Painter Caravaggio was clearly trying to stress dramatic, physical movement-a concession, says Venturi, to the classicist critics...
Bryn Mawr's lively Classicist Lily Ross Taylor, 65, who in 25 years has set hundreds of unsuspecting girls to lapping up Lucretius, devouring Vergil, plunging into everything from the politics of ancient Rome to the cults of Etruria. Peering excitedly through her glasses, Miss Taylor started each lecture as a model of good grooming, gradually worked herself up into such a frenzy of hair-rumpling that students were moved to remark: "You can tell how well her class went by the way her hair is standing...