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...eminent age of the railway, the morning newspaper, the club, the waltz, and eventually the tea party. But it was the age, above all, of an entrenched middle class and hence an enthroned respectability. Men were known to play tennis in top hats. The Biblical historian. H. H. Milman, was ostracized for calling Abraham a sheik. The Victorian Sunday was as cheer less as a steel engraving; the Victorian matron went swathed in undergarments and taboos; the Victorian tourist, with a former Baptist missionary, Thomas Cook, for guide, came home from the Continent more insular than he had gone away...
More than half of the senior class, 112 of the 216, will graduate with honors. Four will receive the Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude. They are Anga Boass of Sherborn, Biology; Mrs. Dorothy Milman Merman of Great Neck, N.Y., English; Julia Otis of Takoma Park, Md., History and Literature; and Mrs. Gabriella Pintus Schlesinger of Boston, English...
Springing directly from the hearts of the people, balladry is a form of human expression that contains "beauty, truth, and relevance." Since it is transmitted orally, balladry provides important clues to the history of the epic; the late Milman Parry, a Harvard philologist, devoted his energy to the recording of Yugoslavian folk ballads of legendary heroes from the lips of tavern minstrels...
...Milman H. Linn, III--P. B. H.; J.V. Football; House Athletics...
John B. Rehm '52 won both $100 undergraduate Bowdoin prizes in the Classics field for his translations into Latin and Attic Greek. Milman G. Parry 2G won $200 for a Greek essay, while Cecil B. Pascal 2G received Honorable Mention. Kenneth J. Reckford '54 won the John Osborne Sargent prize of $200, while Roland F. Perkins '52 won a $100 prize for excellence in Latin, to complete awards in the Classics field...