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Classical Philology 36.--The Philippies of Demosthenes and of Cicero. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at 11. Professor Morgan...
...Tragedy"; Webster's "Duchess of Malfe"; Middleton's "The Changeling"; Dryden's "All for Love"; Shelley's "Cenci"; Browning's "Blot on the Scutcheon"; Tennyson's "Becket"; Goethe's "Faust"; Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus"; Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," specially edited by Professor C. W. Bullock; "Letters" of Cicero and Pliny; Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"; Burn's "Tam O'Shanter"; Walton's "Complete Angler" and "Lives" of Donne and Herbert. "Autobiography of St. Augustine"; "Plutarch's "Lives"; Dryden's "Aeneid"; "Canterbury Tales"; "Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis; Dante's "Divine Comedy"; Darwin's "Origin of Species"; "Arabian...
...Harvard 1, this evening at 8 o'clock. The special subject of this lecture is "The Environment of Ancient Rome," and the lecturer will deal with the principal spots around the Eternal City which have been made familiar to us by the classics. Tivoli, and the homes of Cicero and Horace, will receive special attention. The lecture, which will be open to members of the University only, will be illustrated by lantern slides...
...regulations relating to admission examinations. Under the present system, the requirements in elementary Latin consist of an alternative examination in the first four books of Virgil's Eneid or selected myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses. To this is to be added the further option of substituting "selected speeches of Cicero." This last is defined in a note as follows: "The speeches of Cicero referred to in the definition of elementary Latin are the speeches on the Manilian Law, Catiline, Archias, and Marcellus...
With regard to the requirements in advanced Latin, the change comprises the omission of one of the three parts which have heretofore made up the examination paper. This part, which is marked (b) in the University Catalogue for 1906-7, reads: "an examination (which may include translation) on Cicero's four speeches against Catiline and the Defence of Archias; with questions on the subject-matter, the life of Cicero, and his position in literature." Two years' notice will be given of any change in the regulations as they now stand...