![]() Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-speaking Universities, sourced to her sister's autobiography Exploring the Dangerous Trades: the Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. "Instead of the grandeur and beauty of Aeschylus and Sophocles, it seemed that the important thing was their use of the second aorist," she said. ![]() The lectures were thorough, but lost sight of the beauty of literature by focusing on obscure grammatical points. ![]() She was dissatisfied by the teaching of classics in her university lectures.Īccording to Alice, Edith was extremely disappointed with the lectures she attended. Wikipedia, sourced to her New York Times obituary "My father was well-to-do, but he wasn't interested in making money he was interested in making people use their minds" thus, her father guided her towards the Classics, and, when she was seven years old, he began teaching her Latin, then French, German, and Greek. Her father encouraged her interest in the classics from an early age. We can trace out some possible answers to this by examining the history of her life. ![]()
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