Word: classicist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...
Sock v. Buskin Sirs: Technically and in all other respects Readers Offer and Redmond are right [TIME, March 11]. Let TIME'S editors reconsider "Classicist John Milton's language in L'Allegro...
...Technically Readers Offer and Redmond are right. But let them consider Classicist John Milton's language in U Allegro...