Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past half century, the U.S. has taken more and more seriously the cult of youthfulness. Walt Whitman, the 19th century's great poet, was too realistic for any cult, best celebrated old age in this breath-taking line...
This month the Baltimore Museum of Art will celebrate its 25th year with a big loan show devoted to paintings of and by the aged. Among its masterpieces will be Thomas Eakins' portrait of Walt Whitman (opposite), painted when the poet...
...Eakins," Whitman once opined, "is not a painter, he is a force." To criticisms of Eakins' portrayal, Whitman retorted: "It is likely to be only the unusual person who can enjoy such a picture-only here and there one who can weigh and measure it according to its own philosophy. Eakins would not be appreciated by ... professional elects: the people who like Eakins best are the people who have no art prejudices to interpose...
After a brief speech by Dean Bundy, Richard P. Waters, Jr. '34 will present the Ames Award for "self-reliance, character and leadership" to two seniors. The graduating class will then be welcomed to the Alumni Association by Alumni President John Cowles '20 and Frederic B. Whitman '19, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
Andrew T. Cole, Jr. '54 will receive the Bowdoin (Classics) prize of $100 for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage from Cedric H. Whitman's "Sophocles, A Study of Herolic Humanism." Kenneth J. Reckford '54 will get an Honorable Mention...