Word: highet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best books on more specialized aspects include Gilbert Highet's The Art of Teaching (1950) and The Academic Marketplace, (1958) by Theodore Caplow and Reece J. McGee (both out in paperback). Bernard Berelson's Graduate Education in the United States (1960), and John J. Corson's Governance of Colleges and Universities...
...incomprehensibly incompetent" language teachers, Vaio on his own learned Latin. Greek and French, and enough Chinese to translate poetry. He also knocked out his own English version of the first third of Dante's Inferno. At Columbia, where Vaio studied German and Japanese for variety, famed Classicist Gilbert Highet called his translations "beautiful-extraordinarily lively and poetic," gave him an A+ ("something I've done only once before"). After two or three years as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford's University College, Vaio is headed for college teaching...