Word: ciceroism
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...indicate the possible desirability of certain changes of detail, though not of principle. Among the changes suggested are a reduction in the total number of entrance examinations such as would be gained, for instance, by combining into one examination the separate tests in grammar, elementary prose composition, and Cicero and sight translation of prose, or by using the comprehensive papers which the University, Princeton, and Yale employ; a reduction in the amount of prescribed reading in Virgil and in Cicero with the provision that the prescribed portions of the text should be changed every few years...
Classical Philology 36 hf. Cicero and Humanism, will be given by Professor E. K. Rand. Three times a week, at hours to be arranged. Course 36 is also open to properly qualified undergraduates...
Whenever we hear the word "forum," we have a sudden vision of Cicero standing in the Roman Forum, wearing a flowing Roman toga, and making the speeches which were the bane of our lives a few years ago; we never imagine that the forum is a present day possibility. But men acquainted with English universities, especially Oxford, realize that the forum does not belong to historical Rome alone; it is today a great force in training university men in thoughtful discussions of important topics of the day. An impressive list is made when the names of the greatest Englishmen...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell--is a charming contribution, and one which will be read with great respect and with smiles by all who turn its pages. Freshmen are not so very different nowadays from what they were in 1811, even if fathers are less apt in these days to quote Cicero and Fenelon...
...Rubin '12, "First Oration against Catiline," by Cicero...