Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world famous philosopher began the annual Herman F. Kahn lecture series last night with a speech on "Myth and History." Professor Brandon Homer devoted the major portion of his address to the renowned Homer-Smith theory of Underground Migration, propounding that mankind had, at one stage of pre-history, lived on the Earth's crust. Homer said that evidence supporting the theory exists in many branches of study, and offered an example of "linguistic evidence" by analyzing such phrases as "green plant" and "starry night," still common in primitive dialects...
Resplendent in pink robe and home-made cardboard crown, Homer A. Tomlinson, bishop of the Church of God and presidential candidate of the Theocratic Party, urged a crowd of 150 undergraduates "to be as daring spiritually as you are intellectually." But, before Tomlinson could win many converts, three University police hustled him to a Lamont office...
...Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, and Sallust or Caesar's Commentaries, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, eight chapters; Xenophon's Anabasis and two books of Homer's Iliad; English Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra to Quadratic Equations, and two books of Loomis' Geometry or of Playfair's Euclid...
...secrecy seemed academic, since in its more talkative pre-U-2 days the Air Force had pretty well let the Samos cat out of the bag. In 1958, Air Force General Homer Boushey explained the principles of Samos to a House committee. When an earthbound telescope looks up from the ground, its vision is dimmed and distorted by nearby irregularities in the atmosphere. But were that same telescope to look down from space, the same irregularities would have much less effect. On a clear day, a 40-in. telescope 500 miles up would theoretically see and photograph objects...
...Excellence. The bill failed, but it echoed the inglorious 1940s, when the university regents fired able President Homer Rainey, who had accused them of imperiously firing facultymen with a total disregard for academic freedom. The regents replaced Rebel Rainey with a tamer president, Zoologist Theophilus S. Painter, who devoted himself to fruit-fly research. They also dumped famed Author J. Frank Dobie, Texas' top folklorist, who refused to stop protesting the Rainey firing. By the time Texas-born Logan Wilson became president in 1953, the eyes of U.S. scholars were on Texas as a good place to avoid...