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...Columbia was commemorating a year too soon. University classicists promptly split on what to do. Scottish Gilbert Highet ("I'm a classicist, not a mathematician") was for calling the whole thing off, but bearded Classicist Moses Hadas favored the exhibition. Meanwhile the university news office, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia, informed reporters that "because of poor time calculation in earlier times," even the birth of Christ "must be dated a little earlier, probably 4 B.C." Therefore, the news office implied, one year in Caesar's case hardly seemed significant...
Actually, court tennis is a sport of kings, or so one is told by the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and consequently few play if in the United States. It is rumored that Louis X of France died from a chill received while on the court, and indeed the literary-minded individual will find reference to this venerable sport in Shakespeare's Henry...
...parts. Fifteen had spent six months to two years in Perón's jails on charges of plotting revolutions. Many second-and third-generation Prensa employees would meet daily on streetcorners or at cafeterias to kindle hope and recall past glories when the paper was a daily encyclopedia of world news rivaled only by the New York Times and the Times of London...
...huge floral wreath, the two went to India's most important memorial, Raj Ghat, where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated. Removing their shoes, they stood at the spot for a silent moment (long enough to reflect, if they remembered at all, that the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the saint of India a reactionary who "pretended in a demagogic way" to lead the Indian independence movement...
...described the thesis-writer's book-notes as "intelligently done" but criticized her bibliography on Bakunin as "less than I would expect from the competent undergraduate." Admitting that Miss Taunton "obviously knows how to use reference works," he pointed out that the bibliography includes such unimaginative entries as the Encyclopedia Britannia and fails to include Bakunin's own works or some of the foreign books...