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Word: classicist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Some of the fault was the students', Highet decided, but a lot of it sounded like plain bad teaching. Last week, after chewing the subject over in his own mind for a long time, 44-year-old Classicist Highet published a lively, highly readable book on his own profession, The Art of Teaching (Knopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Be an Artist | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Harvard's Arthur Stanley Pease, 68, a shy, spindly classicist who gave up the presidency of Amherst College in 1932 because he missed teaching, was happiest between semesters wandering about the New England countryside, noting the shrubs and flowers (his Vascular Flora of Coös County, New Hampshire was a minor classic). His plan after he stopped teaching Latin: "Study Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...four present University professorships are held by economist Summer H. Slichter, humanist Ivor A. Richards, classicist Werner Jaeger, and biochemist Edwin H. Cohn...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Bridgman, Chafee May Be University Professors | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

...belief in Greek is greater than ever," said 84-year-old Gilbert Murray, who 45 years ago served as model for Shaw's brash young classicist. Murray, an author and statesman and, until his resignation in 1936, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the few men left in a mechanistic age who still "know Greek" and believes in it as part of the education of the full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greek Is Greater | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...most venerated and influential men in England; Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greek Is Greater | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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