Word: crito
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sever 11 was filled yesterday at the occasion of Professor Goodwin's first lecture on "Plato, Socrates and the Sophists." The lecture was intended more particularly for the freshmen who are about to begin the Crito and the Apology, but it was likewise enjoyed by a number of upper-classmen and instructors. It is from Plato and Xenophon that we get all our knowledge about Socrates, his philosophy and his personality. It is hard to state in terms what was Socrates' philosophical scheme. In fact, Professor Goodwin said that Socrates was much like our own Mr. Emerson who prided himself...
...third volume of the College Series of Greek Authors is Plato's 'Apology of Socrates' and 'Crito,' edited on the basis of Cron's edition by Louis Dyer, assistant professor in Harvard University. We have rarely come across an edition of a Greek classic more satisfactory than this. Any one who reads the introduction, containing a summary of the history of Greek Philosophy anterior to the time of Plato, and who dips here and there into the commentary, will not wonder that German scholars have indicted their appreciation of Cron's work by calling for eight editions. Professor Dyer...
...scholars about as far as the sophomore class of our better American colleges. The course in Greek and Latin during the last year is, Cicero's Tusculanian Disputations, Odes and Satires of Horace, selections from Demosthenes and Thucydides, at least two tragedies of Sophocles, and Plato's Apology and Crito. Most examinations are oral both in the gymnasia and the universities. The universities comprise four departments, the law, medicine, historical philological, and the physical, mathematical. The degree of magistri is very difficult to obtain, and is seldom gained before the candidate has reached thirty. Education is a means of liberation...
...second of the series edited by Professors White of Harvard and Packard of Yale - the first being an edition of the first book of "The Odyssey," which has not as yet been given to the public. Prof. Dyer will bring out his complete edition of the Apology and Crito at a later time...
Prof. Dyer will continue his reading of the "Apology of Plato" at 7.30 tonight in Sever 11, after which Prof. Allen will read "The Crito...