Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made possible what I have done.' He is a loyal friend, a gracious enemy. In his presence conversation is rarely trivial and never low. He is not all things to all men; he is the same thing to all men, a gentleman and a scholar. If a Greek piano-tuner visited his house professionally, Mr. Baker would learn all about the insides of a piano and the piano-tuner would hear about Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides...
...could not hold pen, pencil or eating utensils; fellow students were obliged to write his notes and to feed him in the college dining-room. Although his mind was keen and he formed ideas clearly, he expressed himself with greatest difficulty. For studying his lessons (he was good in Greek, Latin, French), he had an apparatus built to hold his books...
...RETURN to the EARLY greek will be NOTICED in footwear AS shoes are destined TO GO altogether OR BOTH at once as ONE MIGHT be tempted...
...this way we will GRADUALLY, approach to THE grand simplicity OF THE early greek A QUANTITY which can ONLY be compared TO THE even greater SIMPLICITY of the MIDDLE WEST...
...gave him its doctor of philosophy degree, it immediately made him its professor of Latin. A scholar, it was presumed at that time, was a classicist. He knew his humanities and lived by them. A few years, however, and students asked the cash value of Latin and Greek and other "impractical" studies. No humanist, it was argued, ever turned a quick dollar. Professor West cried down the materialists. Classical learning, he contended, was one means if not the only means of "maintaining the gold standard of education." With funds that believers gave him, he investigated a few years...