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Subjects of the third Senior Forensic, due March 1 : 1. Does the excellence of the artist depend upon the excellence of the man? 2. Comment upon the following sentence : "Omnes legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus." Cicero, pro Cluentio Section 53.) 3. What are the grounds for supposing that the interior of the earth is in a liquid state? 4. Jefferson as a statesman. 5. Is Mr. Henry James a true delineator of American character...
...Latin the requirements for admission to the freshman class were besides grammar and composition the whole of Virgil, of Caesar and Cicero's Select Orations, but in Greek only Felton's Greek Reader. The studies of the freshman and sophomore years were entirely prescribed. Of the junior and senior, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek, Latin, Mathematics, Physics and German, were well taught. To Philosophy considerable attention was paid, and especially to Political Philosophy and Constitutional History; Rhetoric, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and some minor subjects were taught. "Instruction" is put at $75.00 a year; total expenses...
...father have money enough to keep him from the necessity of work, and his business life be simply the gentlemanly arts of helping to manage the estate and to fill a place in society, he will find a long training is necessary after he has done with Cicero and Homer before he is fit for either employment. Neither Greek nor Latin nor the higher mathematics have brought him a single idea concerning prudent investments, the capabilities of money in the world's different markets, nor yet the best or most effective part to play in a drawing-room...
...their titles mended, and were otherwise not so perfect as a collector would be glad to see them. For the first, $1,190 was paid; for the second, $177; for the third, $363; for the fourth, $120. Cardinal Ximenez's Polyglot Bible, in six volumes, fetched $830; Cicero's Letters, first edition (Rome, 1470), $135; the first edition of Homer, $355, and Wycliffe's New Testament, (manuscript, about...
...request of the members of Latin 8, Prof. Lane has determined to substitute Lucretius for Cicero as the work for the present term in that elective...