Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football team give way to bigger and better foemen on alternating Saturdays have I become reconciled to the judgment of the Great Middle West that Harvard has degenerated solely into an institution of learning. The crowning blow, however, has been delivered by the Yale News. The passing of the Greek Department at Harvard brushes away our last hold on culture. We are led to believe that as Apollo had Marsvas skinned a mile, so the Business School, suckled in the years of its infancy in the Classical Library, carries on the torch of culture. And I write with more feeling...
...limited experience both as student and teacher in other educational Institutions outside our own leads me to the suspicion that many of our smaller colleges have ceased to do any serious work in Greek, and some of the universities perforce by reason of the poor preparation of their students have degenerated into one sort or other of parlor-Greek. It is refreshing to me to be at Harvard once again, where for a student of Greek a thorough knowledge of the language is not an otiose desirability, but a necessity. Very sincerely yours, Arthur M. Young...
...that whereas two courses, may be labelled, say, "Athenian Tragedy," one of them may take up twelve plays and another six: or of two courses in Roman Satire one, may include about twice as much as the other. Therefore, when one discovers that Princeton has 12 courses in Greek, Dartmouth 10, Yale 9, Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw any sound conclusions from this information. The weakness of Harvard in this line is, however, unmistakable--and rather curious considering that to the man in the street Harvard is synonymous with all that...
...original translation was completeracy and included an excellent and entertaining glossary devoted to certain unfamiliar aspects of Greek and Roman ethies. The present version is highly incomplete, so much so as to make little or no sense in placers, and even the most inoffensive passages have suffered clumsy and injudicious pruning. And, since an attempt to purify Petronius is much the same as preparing an edition of Fanny Hill for high school use, this version is at best, a sad, sad, business...
There are, of course, two alternatives for the student who wants his classics uncut and in the original bottles. He can either get hold of a costly complete translation or he can read them is the Latin or Greek. The latter is much to be desired, but often impossible, but either is better than to be led into believing that na incomparable literary masterpiece is such sour dishwater as the present offering of Messrs.. Boni and Live right...