Word: evangelinus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...