Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mileage, Tennessee's University of the South at Sewanee is not far from Athens, Ga., but in spirit it is right next door to Athens, Greece. Sewanee's burly boys chase not the pagan pigskin but good marks in Classics 206-"a study of Greek athletics." Purpose: to learn the arts of ancient boxing, running, wrestling, the discus, the shot and the javelin, plus "the Greek concept of athletics and its place in Greek education...
Sewanee still does play smalltime football,* but the real passion at the small (700 men) Episcopal school is for the classics. Latin and Greek are big, and to reinforce the Oxonian atmosphere, upperclassmen who make good grades wear black academic robes to all classes. The school leads the South in per capita production of Rhodes and Fulbright scholars...
Phaedra. Melina Mercouri purrs, snarls and shrieks in the title role of this modern-day version of an old Greek myth. Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onassisism. Only Tony Perkins, as Vallone's stepson over whom all the trouble brews, seems not quite believable. Director Jules Dassin has sought to bring off cinematic high tragedy in a contemporary setting...
...sent a boarding party aboard the Marucla, which cooperatively provided a ladder. Wearing dress whites, Lieut. Commander Dwight G. Osborne, executive officer of the Pierce, and Lieut. Commander Kenneth C. Reynolds, the exec of the Kennedy, led the party aboard the ship. After politely serving his visitors coffee, the Greek captain allowed them the run of his ship. The cargo turned out to be sulphur, paper rolls, twelve trucks, and truck parts...
...Following are excerpts from "The Case for the Four-Year Colleges," by John Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, which ran in the Oct. 27 Alumni Bulletin...