Word: jowett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COMPLETE DIALOGUES OF PLATO (2 Vols.)-Translated by Benjamin Jowett-Random House ($5). Well-printed, sturdy edition (facsimile of the third and latest) of Jowett's classic translation, with all marginal notes, at one-fifth the usual price...
...method rather than to the language of the writers. The authors might be considered as an expression of classic civilization, or they might be read with principal attention to their affect on modern writers. The translations in English, moreover, are often of definite literary value themselves; the English of Jowett is not only a facile medium for conveying ancient culture to the modern mind, but has real intrinsic interest...
...other speakers who took part in last night's audition, with their orations, were: D. M. Sullivan '33. "The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates from Plato's "Phaedo," translated by Benjamin Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, "The Decline of the Drama" by Stephen Leacock; Albert Allen '33, a selection from "Sticks and Stones" by Lewis Mumford; and A. L. Gordon '34, "Address before the Suffolk Bar Association," February 5, 1885, by Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...program for the contest will be as follows: J. C. Wills '32. "The Congo" by Vachel Lindsay; D. M. Sullivan '33. The Forsaken Merman", by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates, from Plato's "Phaedo", translated by Banjami Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, selection from a speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, selection from "The Decline of the Drama", by Stephen Leacock...
Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Sankey, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, W. A. Jowett, Attorney General of Great Britain, Benjamin N. Cordoza, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Frederick Pollock, eminent English jurist and historian all acclaim Holmes in words of glowing praise. Hughes, in presenting an intimate picture of Holmes in his work on the Supreme Court says: "In the performance of his official duties, he is not simply conscientious, but astounding in his method, by which he seems to inflict upon himself cruel and unusual punishment." Sankey...