Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adoption of an examination in Greek mythology and the Bible the division of Fine Arts has subscribed to the fashion current in the field of the humanities of widening the latitude of study to embrace topics related to the central theme in their status as background or sources. An understanding of these rich stores of artistic symbolism will deepen the meaning of the carved or painted subject for the student. There have been men who could explain the significance of Judith and Holofernes in oil or marble, who did not know, to borrow sporting parlance, what league these principals played...
...radical change was announced yesterday in the rules of concentration in the Department of Fine Arts. Believing that the old single examination in the history and principles of the fine arts did not cover the field sufficiently, the department has instituted an examination on Greek mythology and ten books of the Bible, and one in the identification of slides of monuments of various periods of history...
...Millionaire; one Earl's Daughter or Millionaire's Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments of the thesis, is not thereby deprived of the affections of the second daughter." It is not so called, because George Bernard Shaw...
...bright, playful people of the Theatre Guild have long gambled luckily on the golden Shaw, and they never succeed better than when they exhibit his sly profundities to their legion of supporters. Winifred Lenihan is Major Barbara, Helen Westley is her sharp-tongued mother. Elliot Cabot is the Greek professor who at one point addresses Millionaire Dudley Digges as Mephistopheles, which Dudley Digges has been in Faust, until quite recently...
Perhaps it is in accordance with the saying that there is no pleasure without its pain that an examination in Greek has been assigned to the Freshmen on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. Hitherto it has been the custom to give to the entire College a recess from 10 o'clock on the Wednesday preceding Thanksgiving until the Monday following. If it is necessary that the recitations on Wednesday should be conducted as usual, and that those living at a distance should be prevented from spending the day with their families, is it necessary also to deprive them of the pleasure...