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...belief in Greek is greater than ever," said 84-year-old Gilbert Murray, who 45 years ago served as model for Shaw's brash young classicist. Murray, an author and statesman and, until his resignation in 1936, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the few men left in a mechanistic age who still "know Greek" and believes in it as part of the education of the full...
...took over as Regius Professor at Oxford, became one of Britain's reigning Hellenists. He translated 18 tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides into flowing Swinburnian verse, saw successful stage productions of many of them. When enthusiastic playgoers shouted "Murray" and "Author" after one production of a Euripides tragedy translated by Murray, the scholar rose from his seat and said simply that the author had been dead for many years. Nonetheless, Murray's translations of Electro, and Hippolytus made Euripides (484?-4O7 B.C.) an international bestseller in English...
...William Osler, a Canadian, was made a baronet in 1911 after leaving Johns Hopkins to become regius professor of medicine at Oxford...
Biologist Lancelot Hogben, author of Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen, is as bright as he is handsome. When he was elected Fellow of Great Britain's Royal Society, they called him young. Now 44, he holds the world-famed Regius Professorship of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen...
Plain, thick-browed, 47-year-old Miss Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod wears her dark hair in a severe bob. She is a daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology...