Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English 54 New Fogg Lect. Rm. French 9 Emerson F, J French 14 Sever 5 Geography 7 Sever 5 Geology 17b Sever 18 German 1a, sects, 3, 4 New Fogg Lect. Rm. German 2, sects. 2, 3 Sever 11 German 12b Sever 30 Government 8 Harvard 6 Greek B I Sever 30 History 12 New Lect. Hall History 56b New Lect. Hall Latin 12 Sever 18 Mathematics A II Prof. Birkhoff, 1 Sever 23, 24 Mr. Brown, 2 Sever 24 Mr. Wexler, 3 Sever 35 Mr. Fox, 4 Sever 35 Mathematics C, I sects 1, 2, 3, 4 Memorial Hall...
...specially trained scholars whose knowledge of their subjects consists in more than an ability to compile an acceptable list of authorities the advantages of the Oxford plan cannot be denied. The specialist in American history is not likely to offer a deep understanding of medieval thought or of the Greek city state. It is only by working under a number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic or enthusiastic appreciation of more than one country or one age. Furthermore...
Both Bowdoin prizes, for the best translations, in Latin and in Greek, submitted to the Department of Classics, were won by John Primott Redcliffe Maud '29, of London, England. Each of these prizes was $50. The John Osborne Sargent prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace was awarded to Gerald Frank Else '29, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Honorable Mention went to David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson '32, of Tuckahoe, New York...
...furniture, no bookcase. The college library furnished the volumes he was at any time using, and these lay along the floor, beside his dictionary, his shoes, and the box that contained the sick chicken. A single bare table held the book he had just laid down, together with a Greek newspaper, a silver watch, a cravat, a paper package or two, and some scraps of bread...
...taste was more than usually sensitive, kept fine and discriminating by the restraint in which he held it. Indeed, all his senses, except sight, were acute. The wine he drank was the delicate unresinated Greek wine,--Corinthian, or Chian, or Cyprian; the amount of water to be mixed with each being carefully debated and employed. Each winter a cask was sent him from a special vineyard on the heights of Corinth, and occasioned something like a general rejoicing in Cambridge, so widely were its flavourous contents distributed...