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Classic EssaysRevilo P. Oliver

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Robert Welch by Revilo P. Oliver ON 26 January 1985, memorial services for the late Robert Welch were held in Belmont, Massachusetts, with the conventional funerary prayers to a god in whom the atheist did not believe, and a singing of the sinister “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” on which…
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Revilo P. Oliver by Margot Metroland PROFESSOR Revilo Pendleton Oliver died in 1994, full of years and honors, as they say; and also notoriety. Long a Classics professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana, he gained his PhD in 1938 with a translation and commentary on a 1500-year-old Sanskrit drama.…
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