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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed, spirited, but excessively proper translation of British Classicist Gilbert Murray, Aeacus. judge of the dead, mistakes the wine god Dionysus for Heracles, who has stolen Cerberus, the watchdog of Hades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Puddocks | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Murray's "cutpurses, burglars, father-beaters" become, in Young's thistly translation, "houssbrakars, sporranslitters, daddie-dadders." Young is not above throwing foreign phrases into his Lallans: "He's a richt pukka sahib, your maister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Puddocks | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Brekekekex, Koax. Impenetrable at first, Lallans becomes readable after a little practice, and the reader stumbles through even such sheep-pasture poetry as: "Meantime the doitit gomerils sat,/ the hinnie-darlin mamma's pets/and gowpt like gowks." (Murray's equivalent verse: "Each sat at home, a simple, cool,/ Religious, unsuspecting fool/ And happy in his sheeplike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Puddocks | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Gregory M. Harvey '59, John M. Ferren '59, and James L. Kincaid '58, members of the Crimson negative team, defeated Princeton here in Cambridge. The University's affirmative team, composed of David L. Bynum '59, Kenneth Aldrich '60, and Richard H. Murray '58, won at New Haven against Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debating Team Wins | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Comparative Literature 270, "Thematics," a seminar on the historical and psychological significance of certain recurrent themes in Western literature, will be taught by Henry A. Murray '15, professor of Clinical Psychology, and Harry T. Levin, professor of Comparative Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Depts. Plan Course Additions For Next Term | 4/19/1958 | See Source »

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