Word: classicist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Rutherford Mead, 81, famed classicist architect (Boston Public Library), partner of McKim, Mead & White; in Paris; of heart disease...
...Harvard Classical Club, Professor Alexander Souter, Professor of Latin at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the British Academy, will lecture this evening at 8 o'clock on "Saint Augustine" in the Old Fogg Museum, at a meeting open to the public. Professor Souter, is a noted classicist and authority on the Bible...
Dean West's greater achievement is the persistence of classical teaching in the U. S. When Princeton in 1883 gave him its doctor of philosophy degree, it immediately made him its professor of Latin. A scholar, it was presumed at that time, was a classicist. He knew his humanities and lived by them. A few years, however, and students asked the cash value of Latin and Greek and other "impractical" studies. No humanist, it was argued, ever turned a quick dollar. Professor West cried down the materialists. Classical learning, he contended, was one means if not the only means...
Varied schools of music will be introduced by the Boston Symphony orchestra in its concert at Sanders Theatre tonight. Beethoven, the classicist, Brahms, the romanticist, and Moussorgsky, the modernist, will be represented on the program...
...opening talk the visiting classicist took as his subject "Tradition in Poetry." The classical tradition, he said, that descended from Greece was the true poetic inspiration, and all great poetry since early times had been under direct influence, and owed its greatness to the amount of its faithfulness to the tenets of that tradition, which were ecstatic adoration of primal beauty, not for the beauty itself, but for the appreciation of the transcendent spirit behind it, the spirit that has been felt by all generations of poets, and which is itself the fountain spring of all poetry...