Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English 28 Memorial Hall English 33 New Fogg Large Lect. Rm. English 75 New Fogg Large Lect. Rm. English 77 New Fogg Large Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 15e New Fogg Small Lect. Rm. French 6 New Lect. Hall German 28 Sever 35 Government 27a Sever 30 Greek 2 Sever 35 History 13 Sever 5, 6, 7 History 15 Harvard 5 History 40 Harvard 5 History 68 Harvard 6 History of Science 1 Emerson D Italian 1 Old Fogg Lect. Rm. Mathematics A V, sects. 1, 2 Sever 24 Mathematics C V Sever 8 Mathematics 3 New Lect. Hall Mathematics...
...college's foundation as a rather visionary proposal. The good will of the Harvard faculty had been won in 1878, to a considerable extent by the work of Miss Abby Leach, who had come to Cambridge and taken private instruction from Professors Child, Goodwin and Greenough in English, Greek and Latin respectively. Her sound scholarship (she later served as a professor at Vassar) leveled many objections to collegiate instruction of women...
...representing a relatively much greater outlay today. Work was begun in four rented rooms in the house at 6 Appian Way. But thirtyeight Harvard instructors were eventually engaged to teach the twenty-seven young women who enrolled. The work was actually launched with the class of three in elementary Greek, taught by Le Baron Russell Briggs, who had been graduated from Harvard in 1875, and was destined to become the president of the new women's college...
...undergraduates. An obvious case is the History of British Foreign Policy 1814-1914, where the Reading Period means not only losing the delights of episodes like Pilgerstein vs the Angel, but also relying on reading which is pathetically inadequate. A welcome exception to such instances has arisen in Greek B. A section faced with the prospect of tackling a new poet at practically each reading appealed in perplexity to its instructor to give some introduction of the strange authors and to explain away some of the difficulties of unlearned dialects. He responded by holding classes regularly during the Reading Period...
...Menckens, two voices are raised-Walter Lippmann's, young and clear, Ludwig Lewisohn's, old and sad. The two have much in common. As Jews, both men can claim rich philosophical heritage. As conscious Americans, both incline to intense modernism. As intellectuals, both prescribe an adaptation of Greek philosophy...