Word: lyttleton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin or Greek. It had been put forward most recently in 1948, when the dons voted it down 250-155, and the clamor against enforced classicism was going strong again last week. Most clangorous clamorer: gadfly-sized (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lbs.), distinguished Cambridge Author-Astronomer Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (who lists among his recreations, in Who's Who, "wondering about...
Compulsory Spinach. Says Lyttleton of the Latin-or-Greek requirement, which he hopes to upset at the next meeting of the Cambridge Senate: "It's ridiculous. It reminds me of the Victorian dictum, 'It doesn't matter what you teach a boy, as long as he doesn't like it.' " As a boy, Lyttleton did not like Latin, flunked his Cambridge entrance exam the first time, barely squeaked into the university on his second...
Muscle-Bound Mind. The aroused astronomer carried his war to the BBC last week, got vigorous bene and male from the press. The Daily Telegraph cried O tempora, O Lyttleton: "There could be no worse argument in favor of this jejune and illiberal measure than that Latin is a dead language and should therefore remain dead . . . The truth is that the study of Latin is a training for the muscles of the mind." But the Daily Mirror's Cassandra argued that Latin had muscle-bound his mind. He began by declining mensa (table), then wrote: "This nonsense I have...
...mixed doubles, round one, D. Dustin and P. Marx beat J. Rydel and E. Beer, 6-2, forfeit; W. Tucker and C. Hansohka beat T. Lyttleton and D. Spencer, 6-0, 6-1; J. Stokes and R. Converse beat L. Youman and M. Russell, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3; H. Watchel and B. Bradbury defeated E. B. Senehi and A. McCormick by forfeit...
...literate Briton, who shrinks from the bombastic, recoils even more sharply from the banal. Last week Punch blandly listed "for convenient reference . . . some of the telling images included" in a speech by Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton...