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...instructor in Russian, Leo Wiener, lately assistant professor in the University of Minnesta, has been secured. Born in Poland, and graduated at a Polish university, he is especially well fitted for the position. Besides being a scholar of wide attainments, he is particularly well versed in the slavic languages...
Plato, the son of Ariston, said Professor Goodwin, was born in Aegina about 427 B. C. He became a pupil of Socrates and, after the death of his instructor, opened an academy in an olive grove north of Athens, near which he owned a house and garden. Among his pupils were Demosthenes, Lycurgus and Aristotle...
Professor Good win delivered the second of his course of lectures on Greek Philosophy last evening in the Fogg Museum. After giving a brief resume of his last lecture, he spoke of the great intellectural movement which began with Socrates, who was born in 469 B. C. The great philosopher left no writing whatever. We know him only through the unreliable memoirs of Xenophon, and the somewhat erratic dialogues of Plato...
Robert Burns, said Mr. Copeland in his lecture last evening, was born on a farm in Scotland in the year 1759 and, with the exception of two long visits and one short visit to Edinburgh, spent in the country by far the greater part of his short life of thirty-seven years. He was induced to publish his poems in Kilmarnock in 1786 with the hope of raising money to pay his passage to Jamaica, and the success of an enlarged edition of this volume was such that he was not only the lion of the winter in Edinburgh...
Pythagoras, born at Samos about 584 B. C., founded a school of philosophy at Croton, Italy. The most important doctrine of this famous school was the transmigration of souls. It is not probable that Pythagoras brought this doctrine from Egypt. The theory of the fundamental essence of number was another characteristic teaching of this school. Pythagoras thought that nothing in nature could be conceived or understood without numbers...