Word: ciceros
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to his subject matter. Cicero says Socrates brought philosophy down from heaven to earth. Socrates did not agree with his predecessors who tried to solve the material universe; all this was folly and mere fancy to him. He believed that the natural sciences were reserved by the gods for themselves and that all attention should be placed on that which deals with conduct. He was not a systematic thinker like Plato and Spinoza. His great achievement was that he taught the importance of clearness in thinking on ethical questions which is called his inductive process of thinking...
LOST.- Friday the 14th, a history note book, and a Cicero between Memorial and Roberts Hall. Finder kindly leave at Leavitt and Pierce...
...which are the "The People in Government" by H. C. Merwin, "Why our Science Students go to Germany" by S. Sheldon and "A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century" by F. C. Lowell. Miss Harriet W. Preston continues a series of papers on Roman history with a sketch of Cicero's closing years, entitled "Before the Assassination." There are two short stories, "The King's Cup and Cake" by Sophie May, and "A Dissolving view of Carrick Meagher" by George H. Jessop. Bliss Carman, a recent graduate of Harvard contributes a long poem on "Death in April...
...instruction given in the American colleges in 1789 was by no means advanced. We can see how it was with Harvard from the change of curriculum effected in 1787. Up to that time the Latin and Greek provided had consisted of Virgil Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament. By the changes made in 1787 the students were to read in Latin, Horace, Sallust and Cicero "de Oratore;" and in Greek, Xenophon and Homer. Even this was not a more advanced curriculum than that of the best preparatory schools of the present time. The study of mathematics was probably...
...Cicero, De Oratore, Book I., based upon the edition of Sorof. By W. B. Owen, Ph. D., professor in Lafayette College...