Word: murray
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...highly, because more intelligently, than ever before. The discovery in Egypt, for instance, of large fragments of Menander has detracted from the glory that had attached to his name, but it has correspondingly increased the appreciation of Plautus and Terence, who had hitherto been considered less talented imitators. Gilbert Murray's translations and extravagant eulogies of Euripides have provoked such a legion of protestants that from the polemics of both factions we may expect finally to attain a just conception of the Greek poet's actual worth...
Whatever else one may think of Gilbert Murray's scholarship, he has, at least, taken advantage of a second modern opportunity, in that he has embodied, perhaps better than any other, the meaning of Hellenic culture for his own time. The mediaeval period, the Renaissance, the seventeenth century, each understood antiquity differently and found in it a different kind of inspiration. It remains for us to interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce...
...infield. The other infield positions will not be so easy to fill, for no two men have yet appeared who could be said to have cinched shortstop and third base. Coach Mitchell may draw from H. S. Bothwell '17, F. G. Fripp '16, C. L. Harrison '18, W. J. Murray '18, G. R. Walker '18, and H. C. Wiswall '18 to fill these two places...
...Janet Kirkaldy, Miss Gilda Leary is sweetly attractive as the seamstress. Miss Viola Gillette is a convincing Mistress Musgrove, and Mr. Barlowe Borland, as Geordic, plays the low comedy part of a Scottish simpleton in a highly laughable manner. The Christic Mucklebacket of Miss Eleanor Daniels, the Sir John Murray of Mr. Jack McGraw, and the Lady Murray of Miss Gilda Leary are all adequate characterizations. Walter Connolly is a competent Dick Lockhart and the minor parts are suitably cast...
...meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the following resignations were accepted: George Herbert McCaffrey '12, as Assistant in Government; Robert Lindley Murray Underhill '11, as Assistant in Philosophy; John Charles Duncan '03, as Instructor in Astronomy...