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Liberal Arts: Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Lucretius, Aurelius, Cicero, Plotinus, Augustine, Bonaventura, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Calvin, Spinoza, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Imperishable Thoughts | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...similar suit last year, by a righteously indignant Miss Frances Moore against one John Thermos of Cicero, Ill. who won $50,000 on an Irish Sweepstakes ticket, was beaten by showing that this "gamble" took place outside of Illinois. Chicago lawyers last week said the odds were on Mrs. Maxwell to take Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Gamblers and Rattrap | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...recommended that Petrenius should be omitted and lectures substituted. Neither Professor Greenenor Mr. Peebles present the course as well as concentrators believed they might, although the organization is all right. Latin Composition seems to be fairly well taught in Latin 3. The first half of Latin 8, dealing with Cicero and Lucretius, will be given by Mr. Mynors of Balliol College, Oxford. The second half on Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, is taken by Professor Pease to whom the adjective "old-fashioned" is applied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...fall of Junior year a concentrator must take a written examination on the Bible, Shakspeare, and two of the following ancient authors: Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Horace, and Virgil, and near the end of his Senior year one on English literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

What is represented by the term "the Classics" in this University is a dull joke in the minds of too many of its students. Most of them have memorized and forgotten the slight vocabulary necessary to turn a given amount of Cicero into English and thus distinguish themselves by the degree of Artium Baccalaurcus from their unlearned brethren of the S.B. The pursuit of the Classics as a four-year course of study is definitely exotic and the expression "dead languages," uttered in a tone of contempt, illustrates the depths to which this subject has sunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASSICAL DOLDRUMS | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

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