Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Philadelphia, Pa.; Edward Lawrence Casey '19, of Natick; Winslow Bent Felton '19, of Haverford, Pa.; Henry Corwin Flower, Jr., '19, of Kansas City, Mc.; Henry Whitney Minot '17, of Boston; William James Murray '18, of Natick; Morris Phinney '19, of Medford; William Brackett Snow, Jr., '18, of Stoneham; Homer Loring Sweetser '17, of Brookline; Walter Heber Wheeler, Jr., '18, of New York, N. Y.; Morrill Wiggin '18, of Boston; Westmore Willcox, Jr., '17, of Norfolk, Va. Manager Norman Elwell Burbidge '17, of Spokane, Wash., also received...
...long should a man sleep? The argument started at the dawn of creation and it is still debated. The ancients looked with scorn on the man who lay long abed, while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall...
...Spiritual Interpretation of History," by Dr. Shailer Matthews, dean of the Divinity School, University of Chicago, contains the William Belden Noble lectures, which were delivered at the University in 1916. Professor C. H. Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity" deals primarily with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion and discusses ancient morality, Roman religion, Oriental cults and early Christianity. Another addition to the Harvard Theological Studies is "The Pauline Idea of Faith in its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic," by Professor W. H. P. Hatch...
Naturally the influence of commercial expansion can never sound the death-knell of literature. Homer, Cicero, Moliere and Goethe will always be read and appreciated, although the entire world cries for development in trade...
...Toppan Prize of $150, awarded in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has been given to Homer Hews Vanderblue, Ph.D., '15, for his essay of "Railroad Valuation...