Word: erasmus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists have been more tender, sympathetic parents than Charles Darwin, father of ten. But Darwin was a scientist first, a father afterward. From the moment his first child, William Erasmus ("Doddy"), was born, 100 years ago, the eager Revolutionist began to take notes on his infants' wailing, coughing, drooling, kicking, stretching, winking, frowning, screaming. "With a fine degree of paternal fervor," Darwin tickled the naked soles of his babies' feet with paper, "tried to look savage" to provoke tears. Purpose of his baby-baiting was to determine whether the instinctive reactions of childhood were similar to the gestures...
Language and Literature: Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Lucian, the Old Testament, Horace, Ovid, Livy, Virgil, the New Testament, Quintilian, Dante, Volsunga Saga, the Song of Roland, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Rabelais, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Erasmus., Montaigne, Montesquieu, Grotius...
Father Simon's successor, Father Erasmus Dooley, entered the church. He left it carrying, in a pyx, the Blessed Sacrament. Ten of the "liberators," Catholics who averred that they wished simply to give Father Simon his freedom and permit services to be resumed in the church, took possession of the rectory. But not for long. The pickets reorganized, mobilized their reserves, stormed the rectory with 100 men, beat up the "liberators," with bloody emphasis on one of them, a trustee of the church named Florian Vecellia, who took his bruises home to bed. Pickets bundled their not-unwilling Father...
...hundred years after the flood of British sea power drowned Holland as a first-class nation, hardworking, stubborn Dutchmen have at least succeeded in reclaiming a well-diked reputation as leading producers of tulips and cheese: But Dutch literature, which even at its high point, in the time of Erasmus and Spinoza, was always Holland's lowest point below sea level, remains almost wholly unreclaimed. Last week two Dutch novels stood out as new patches of dry land...
Nathaniel Saul Lehrman, Brooklyn, New York--Erasmus Hall High School...