Word: aeneid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John, who graduated from the school in 1926 and is now teaching at Dana College, Newark, New Jersey; "Curriculum Problems in Industrial Education," by F. C. Smith, registrar, and lecturer on vocational education at the school, who graduated in 1924; and "Studies and Tests on Virgil's Aeneid," by Florence Waterman, who is now teaching at the Windsor School, Boston...
...thousand years ago Virgil was born in Italy. He is remembered today by college board markers, by pedants who love the sonorous opening of the Aeneid, and by a cynical English playwright. While he lived he was the spokesman of Rome and the foremost poet of the world. Long after Virgil's death, John Bartlett in that hall of literary fame called Familiar Quotations remembered his name in three footnotes...