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...wondered how such an idea would go down at Harvard, with its reputation for fiercely independent faculty. Probably not too well. My image of the quintessential professor here is Professor Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, University Professor of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek from 1860 to 1883, who lived by himself in Holworthy Hall, kept chickens in his room and wore a blue cloak and wild beard, that made, in the words of Professor Henry W. Longfellow, “Diogenes a possibility...
Would Professor Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles choose to live in Cathedral Gardens? Probably not. But would we want...
...audience which came to see the show. Riddle said afterwards that he had "faced the most distinguished audience ever assembled in America. In that audience were Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier, President Eliot, Bishop Phillips Brooks, Dr. O. W. Holmes, Henry James, the President of Yale, the Governor, and Professor Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles...
While royalty lent a certain distinction to Holworthy, chickens were the best known of the hall's residents. Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, a professor of Greek, occupied one room in Holworthy for 37 years; so did his poultry. The exact number of his birds is not known; several observers held that he kept some at the home of a certain lady on Garden Street...
President Conant sits directly beneath the portrait of President Eliot with deans to his right and left. The rest of the faculty faces them and despite the austere portraits of men such as Longfellow, Agassiz, Henry James, and the famous professor of Greek, Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, the dignity of tradition occasionally gets thrown to the winds, and Charles Bulfinch's chapel becomes the scene of a good, lively debate...