Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NAOMI J. WALDMAN Whitman, Mass...
...When we freshmen, back in 1919. saw Bill Douglas [Aug. 16], top senior student at Whitman College, stride the campus with his head toward the stars, we could say, "What a scholar...
...American Commonwealth. The committee tried to "avoid inflaming rivalry" by omitting all fiction by living American authors; had they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...
Prof. Cedric H. Whitman, chairman of the Classics Department, said that a small group of "teachers, librarians, outsiders and wives" have been "passionately interested" in founding a modern Greek studies chair for two years. Thus far the group has raised no money specifically for a chair. Whitman said, but it has collected some funds to buy modern Greek books for Widener Library...
Ford added the University would like to find a man to teach both modern Greek and Koine, which is Hellenistic Greek. There are men in the Classics department who know Koine, but no courses are given in it, Prof. Whitman said...