Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker at the conference will include: Zochariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; William A. Jackson, Professor of Bibliography and Assistant Librarian in charge of Houghton Library; Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University library; and presidents and librarians from Stanford University, University of California, and Amherst, Vanderbilt, and Oberlin Colleges...
...Tito. Low managed to get them in advance of general publication and, as printed in TIME'S August 23, 1948 issue, they were the first complete summary of this revealing correspondence. Other Low stories that you may recall include his account of the Communist guerrilla raid on the Greek town of Naousa (TIME, Jan. 31), and Patriot George Magalios and the American aid program for Greece...
...professor of History and Greek, succeeds George H. Chase '96 and Alfred M. Tozzer '00 in his new post. A former president of the Archeological Institute of America and founder of the magazine "Archeology" he has been associated with the University since...
...periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed on to form centers of Western thought in the Greek Orthodox state...
G.B.S. has taken a familiar Greek classic, folded in a dash of "middle class morality" and a measure of Cheapside Cockney, and turned out one of his most palatable and humorous plots. Professor Henry Higgins, a middle-aged bachelor and phonetics expert, takes it upon himself to teach cultured English to a poor flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, and then pass her off as English nobility. For months he drills, cudgels, and bullies her, until "'Enry 'Iggins" becomes "Henry Higgins," and the Bunsen flame in front of Eliza's mouth flickers visibly with every "h." Finally comes the great test...