Word: homer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Company G: Homer D. Lindgreen...
...Channing Chamberlain Simmons, M. D., '99, as Surgeon to the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital and Secretary of the Cancer Commission; Edward Hammond Rislay, M. D., '06, as Surgeon to the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital; Ernest William Goodpasture as Research Fellow in Pathology of the Cancer Commission; James Homer Wright, A. M., '94, as Pathologist, in charge of Diagnosis Service...
...five continents are tossed in war. Does not this heroic age in which we live arouse some fire from an uninspired generation? Homer, as the legend goes, wrote the two great epics about the little feuds of a handful of half-barbaric and rather unhygienic Hellene chieftains. Their war was no more than a tribal war, yet the world for three thousand years has spoken, when it would speak of grand things, of Ilium...
...true that that accomplishment is far more splendid than the recounting? Was Achilles, Arcades, the ignorant, surly feller of men in battles, greater than Homer, who saw all of the known world, and beyond to the Pillars of Hercules, with a dreamer's eye? Was Henry the Fifth greater than Shakespeare, and Arthur greater than Tennyson...
There are several very interesting books on religion and theology just published. "The Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity" takes up the history of Greek religious ideas. The book, by Clifford Herschel Moore '89, Professor of Latin, deals primarily with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion, and discusses also ancient morality, Roman religion, Oriental cults, and early Christianity. Shailer Matthews, Professor of Historical and Comparative Theology and Dean of the Divinity School in the University of Chicago, and William Belden Noble Lecturer at the University for 1916, has a book...