Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Professor, Emeritus, Jaeger, now 70 years old, will continue to work on his ten-volume critical study of Gregory of Nyssa, the early Greek church father and Christian philosopher...
Jaeger's best-known works are Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, which revolutionized Aristotelian scholarship 35 years ago, and Paideia, a three-volume study of the ideals of Greek culture...
...Schoolteacher Homer Davis helped found Athens College in 1925, saw the academy for Greek boys slowly increase its first enrollment of 15 students and endowment of $10,000, took over as president in 1930. Last week, from the U.S.-Greek-run school in Athens, which tenaciously survived the dictatorship of John Metaxas (1936-41), successive occupations by Italians, Germans and British, and a painful postwar rebuilding, President Davis, 63, announced his resignation. President-elect, picked by Davis during a trip to the U.S. last month: Charles Marion Rice, 52, director of admissions and head of the English department...
Schoolmaster Rice, who does not know Greek but is resolutely planning a cram course for this summer, will spend next school year learning his job under Davis. The school that he will take over in September 1960 now has 1,050 students, a healthy endowment of $1.6 million (contributed mostly by Greek-Americans, partly by Athenian Greeks), and a spectacular, 35-acre mountain campus. Teaching, done mostly in Greek, follows roughly the curriculum prescribed by the nation's Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most...
Wendell V. Clausen, associate professor of Greek and Latin at Amherst College, and Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard, will each become full professors on July 1. Donald H. Fleming, visiting lecturer this year from Yale, will become professor of History at the same time...