Word: homers
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...helping others, both through his teaching and during his term as a House master. As Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Finley thrilled students for 30 years with passionate and image-filled lectures on the Classics, enabling even the most uninterested undergraduate to understand and enjoy the intricacies of Homer and Virgil. And, as Eliot House master for 27 years--the longest anyone has ever served in a master's post--Finley wrote letters of reference for every one of the approximately 150 seniors who graduated from Eliot each year, "trying to get fellows out in the open," Finley recalls...
Since his retirement from active teaching in 1976, the 78-year old Finley has remained busy at his Tamworth. N.H., home. He recently won a national book award for a new interpretation of Homer's Odyssey. He still plays squash and tennis, which he learned at Harvard from then-national champion Palmer Dixon...
Saying that education is not "personal property." Homer added that it is "morally reprehensible" not to put it to use. Describing the difficulties facing all levels of education today. Horner questioned America's ability to survive intellectually and economically if citizens do not re-examine their objectives and use "all the diverse human resources you can murder...
...Homer said of Odysseus: "He saw the cities of many men and knew their manners." Reagan's pilgrimage to modern cities of other men will help him better understand European attitudes. "I have never found him closed to talking about any given question," Mitterrand said last week of Reagan. The allies hope that he will return home with a better appreciation of the need to frame economic and strategic policies with greater attention to their effects on America's Atlantic partners...
Another source for summer reading suggestions sits untapped by the reference desk at Lamont Library, with the names of 35 books recommended by students. Authors range from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Garry Trudeau, but not Medawer or Homer...