Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointments have been made to the University faculty, Provost Buck announced last night. The new professors are Homer Jakobson, Thomas G. Massaryk Professor of Czechoslovak Studies at Columbia University, who will become Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Hugh M. Raup. Director of the Harvard Forest, who will be Professor of Botany...
Howie Houston is the third best college heavyweight in the East. He was decisioned by Homer Barr, who went on to win the class championship, Saturday afternoon in the eastern intercollegiate wrestling semi-finals at Ithaca, then decisioned Cornell's Bob Clark, 5 to 3, to gain third place. Meanwhile in Cambridge, the Athletic Committee again turned down the proposal to make wrestling a major sport...
...Protestant in Spain today is a second-class citizen. So concludes Pulitzer-Prizewinning Reporter Homer Bigart, who last week reported on a month spent in Spain on his way home from a year's tour of duty in the Iron Curtain countries. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune, Correspondent Bigart, 41, cited some chapter & verse to back up his conclusion...
Scholars need Latin and Greek, and any English concentrator who plans to do intensive research in ancient periods will naturally learn these languages. But many students choose more modern times for study, and they will need sociology and economics--not Virgil and Homer. If they want honors, they are forced to spend valuable time on Latin or Greek whether they like it or not, unless their pre-college training has taken care of the requirement. But in the last decade or so, not only has the emphasis on the classics been relaxed in college preparation, but more freshmen are entering...
...Senator Homer Ferguson, Representative F. Edward Hebert, Christian Science Monitor reporter Robert L. Strout, and Allen A. Klots, all agreed that Congressional investigations are necessary, but were not unanimous in setting up a program of controls for the inquiries...