Word: havelock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction to the program in the Classics Department was "not unsympathetic," but Eric A. Havelock, chairman, noted that it takes longer to learn "the highly structurated and inflected languages" than modern ones. An intense course in Greek or Latin would be very difficult, he asserted...
They will be opposed by Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, and Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law. Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, will moderate...
...Pickering, 47, sandy-haired, New Zealand-born director of the Government-owned Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, led the Caltech team that developed the satellite payload for the Army's Jupiter-C. As a teenager he became a celebrity in his home town of Havelock, N.Z. by bringing home from boarding school the town's first crystal set, entertained his friends with dance music from Australia. A wealthy uncle from Los Angeles took him off to California to study, enrolled him in 1929 at Caltech, where Pickering took his bachelor's degree...
...Most important," Havelock stressed, "has been the introduction of classics in the General Education courses, which help stimulate interest...
...Havelock terms this current revival in classical interests a "new philosophy," a phrase he coined to describe or explain the 25 per cent rise in general course enrollment in the past three years...