Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776, and is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America. It aims to gather together those men whose first interest is in scholarship and intellectual pursuits. The Harvard chapter, established in 1779, comprises among its undergraduates presidents such men as John Quincy Adams 1787, James Russell Lowell '38, Edward Everett Hale '39; Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41; and among its orators and poets Charles Sumner '30, Wendell Phillips '31, William Cullen Bryant '59, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59, Henry Ward Beecher 1821, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Scholarships started in America in 1904," said Professor Adelotte," and have gone on without interruption until they were suspended because of the war, after the appointments in 1917. In those days appointments were made by committees of college Presidents, and all men were required to take entrance examinations in Greek, Latin, and mathematics for Oxford...
Speaking of the recent vote at Oxford to abolish Greek as a compulsory part of the curriculum, Professor Aydelotte expressed himself as being in favor of continuing the study of the classics, although he does not believe that they should be made compulsory
Professor Abbott taught Greek for nineteen years at Groton School, incidentally giving instruction in rowing. In 1915 he went to Yale, where he was assistant rowing coach in addition to instructor in Latin. When Guy Nickalls left as head coach in 1917, Professor Abbott assumed charge and has coached successfully ever since...
...Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford. 1. Physiography and Climate of America as Determining Factors of History. 2. Assyrian Epoch, Vannic Civilization. 3. The Khaldis Moses of Kleoren's Traditions. 4. Advent of Armenians and the Persian Conquest. 5. Iranic Influence on Language, Religion, and Institutions of Armenia. 6. Greek Influence. Christianity. 7. Armenia as an Appanage of Parthia. Sassanid Epoch and Mohammedan Conquest. 8. Armenian Diaspora in Cilicia, Persia, Poland. Political Outlook of Today...