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`````` Background 2组 Gilbert Highet Gilbert Arthur Highet (June 22, 1906 – January 20, 1978) was a Scottish-American classicist, academic 学者, writer, intellectual 知识分子, critic and literary 精通文学的 historian. Born in Scotland, Gilbert Highet is best known as a mid-20th-century teacher of the humanities in the United States. He attended Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford, becoming a fellow of St John‘s College, Oxford in 1932, where he remained for six years. He had met his wife, the well-known novelist Helen MacInnes, while they were fellow-students 同学at Glasgow, and they married