Word: whatmough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whatmough was a Lancashire man, educated at the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge before he began teaching Classics at the University College of North Wales. When President Lowell was looking for someone to fill a chair of Comparative Philology at Harvard, Whatmough was on leave from his post, visiting Egyptian University in Cairo. There he was trying to teach Latin in French (by government decree, instruction had to be in French) to Egyptians who spoke Arabic and English. He accepted Lowell's offer without delay...
...Whatmough's many books Language: A Modern Synthesis (1956) was his best known; it became a popular paperback. His most scholarly work was a monumental Dialects of Ancient Gaul (1949) which was many years in preparation. Last May, he hinted that he planned to write an autobiography...
Shortly before his retirement, Whatmough talked to one of his last classes about what he would do this year. One of his plans, it seems, was to go to Alaska and study Aleut. "I'd really have to learn to ride a horse to do that properly," he mused. "and my friends tell me that would finish me." He paused a moment, then gave a roguish grin and said with finality, "But I think with my constitution...
Funeral services for Joshua Whatmough will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Memorial Church. The Rev. Wesley A. Mallery, assistant minister of the First Congregational Church in Winchester, will conduct the service. would finish the horse...
...Whatmough is survived by his wife G. Verona (Friederich) Taylor, and by two children, Mrs. Frederick D. Greene of Winchester and J. Jeremy T. Whatmough of Dearborn, Mich