Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time a magazine named Art and Understanding. It is hereafter to appear twice a year. Called "A Phillips Publication," and written for the most part by the publisher himself, its illustrations are from canvases in the Phillips Gallery. There are also reprinted articles by John Galsworthy and Virgil Barker. In the opening editorial Collector Phillips gives his credo: "There is nothing esoteric and beyond the comprehension of the average man in that incessant spiritual activity, almost as old as the human species, which we call art. . . . The machine age promises to provide more and more opportunity for leisure. Those...
...Angora, Turkey, one Rouchen Echref Bey completed a translation of Virgil's Bucolics into Turkish...
...Greek or French, is supposedly incapable of quantitative versification: i. e., the scansion of English verse is not dependent on "long" or "short" syllables since there is no such formal distinction between syllables in English. Sensitive ears, like those of Laureate Bridges, however, permit a treatment of English as Virgil treated Latin, with heed to both "long" and "short" syllables. When he speaks of "loose alexandrines" he is cracking a scholarly joke, for his careful quantitative measurement makes every line scan perfectly. The spelling, sometimes apparently archaic, sometimes apparently futuristic, is a guide...
...future growth. . . ." For something to talk about, he said he "wondered" how he would feel about having co-eds under his charge. He expressed no alarm when he learned that his new charges had recently held a vote to determine their "MOST BEAUTIFUL MALE," had chosen pompadoured Captain Virgil Gist, of the University basketball team...
...Clark University, which is also in Worcester, was glad to help Assumption, give the degree, share the day's festivities.* Assumption College is perhaps the tiniest and purest center of classicism in the U. S. Here are taught the Greek of Homer, Plato, Sophocles; the Latin of Virgil, Horace, Augustine; the French of Racine and Bossuet; the English of Shakespeare. For those who wish there is law, medicine. Although not stressed, science and modern languages are not ignored. Many Assumption graduates go to Harvard Law School or to Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Although Assumption is a classical college...