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...reflection or the familiarity will remain too verbal ... Probably,... a course which chose eight great books would be trying to do too much. A list from which a selection would be made might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...
...what are some of the deposits in the Deep Well?" Woodworth asked. He suggested several: "Poetry, painting, novels, Milton, Shakespeare, Sophocles, the Bible, nature, and landscape, and the heavens above." And there is also, he said, "the Well of human associations: Your fellow students, a true friend, inspiring teacher...
...Titanic crash brought the only other major change to Harvard that year, with the bequest of the Widener collection which included first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Keats, and Shelley. There were also volumes of the modern authors: Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Stevenson, which in many instances were personally associated with their authors. Some copies contained presentation inscriptions; others, manuscript corrections and annotations...
...bulls and bears grappled on Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange added a reassuring name to its board of governors-Dr. Milton Stover Eisenhower, 62. Ike's younger brother, president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was named by Big Board President Keith Funston as the "prominent educator" that the 33-man board traditionally includes among its three public members. Past president of two other universities-Kansas State and Penn State-and veteran of a number of Government posts, including a special ambassadorship to Latin America, Milton Eisenhower also can claim financial accomplishments of his own. When...
...simply out of step with it. "It's hard to accept the view that investors in the market are better forecasters than the economists who make it a fulltime business and still don't always do so well at it," says the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman. Pointing to such expansionary factors as the brisk heavy-construction market and rising Government spending, Friedman holds that "there will be no business recession at least until 1963. If the market portends a business decline, then business ought to be turning down now because the market decline started five...