Word: ciceroism
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...Cicero the Orator", Professor Moore, Sever...
...Cicero the Orator", Professor Moore, Sever...
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...scrub-oak grove. The four pine coffins, painted grey, lay on a low platform. Four girls led the hymn-singing, which included this chant: We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, Workers in the mill. Chief preacher was Cicero Queens, a gnarled little old man from 60 miles away in the mountains. While the men sat immovable and the women wailed amens, he cried under the bright morning sun: "This is one of the most saddest times I ever have witnessed. It is a cloudy day today down...
...Columbia freshman had to know Greek grammar and composition; four books of the Anabasis; three of the Iliad; Latin grammar and composition; seven books of Caesar's Commentaries; six books of the Aeneid and six orations of Cicero. In history, English, geography and mathematics the tests were equally severe. "Acute paralysis" would afflict modern youths faced with such tests, in Dr. Butler's opinion. But the same condition would probably have afflicted the youth of 1879 if there had not been unbroken centuries of the so-called "humanities" drilled into their ancestors. It is another instance of adaptability...