Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class of 1933 pushed out to "The Frontiers of Knowledge" yesterday in a colloquium called "The Humanities in the Age of Science." Three of the University's foremost humanists, Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, exposed the dangers lurking in the recent onrush of the sciences...
...prize includes an award of $2,000. Honorable mention went to Cedric H. Whitman, associate professor of Greek and Latin, for his book, Homer and the Heroic Tradition, which will be published on June 13. The fourth annual Prize will be awarded next spring...
...last period in the ninth grade is spent in a consideration of ancient history--from the Sumerians through the kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, the Hebrews, the Minoans of Crete, the Persian Empire, and the Greek city states down to the victory of Philip of Macedon...
...many high schools only one language is taught to any considerable extent, while at Andover, another one of America's large private schools, four years of training in Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and German are available and a new series of courses in Russian is being started...
...Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, will argue that "Space Travel Is Just Around the Corner." In Emerson Hall D, J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, John H. Finley, Jr., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will defend the place of "Humanities in the Age of Science...