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...Robot. Interested only in his game, he abruptly left Erasmus Hall High School in his junior year, ending an academic career marked largely by lack of interest and poor
Advanced Modern Dance Class of Erasmus Hall High School (New York), under Florence Sloan, perform using themes of Communication. Unity, sensitivity. Identity, and The Drug Scene. Main Lounge, Currier, 8:30, April 22. Free...
...reach Colmar until 1492. When he got there, Schongauer was dead. His restless wanderings across Europe included two trips to Venice, and were capped by a yearlong sojourn in The Netherlands, where he was a celebrity among celebrities, moving in a nimbus of fame through a circle that included Erasmus himself. Later he commemorated his meeting with Erasmus by a portrait that was drawn, according to its inscription, "from the living figure." In fact it was done from Dürer's memory and another artist's portrait, and Erasmus thought it a poor likeness...
...proposed opening the country's 23 Augustinian convents to men and women of any Christian faith, married or single. Life would follow an experimental communal pattern that has not yet been fully worked out. They may not have the chance. Rome?which may remember that both Luther and Erasmus were Augustinians?has threatened to disband the Dutch province if it goes ahead with the project...
...enjoyed reading your article on Erasmus [April 25], but I do not think you went all the way when you endeavored to explain the name of my great compatriot. Erasmus' name in fact was Geert Geertsz (Gerard, son of Gerard) and as the humanists liked to translate their names into Latin (and/or Greek), Erasmus used the fact that "Geert" in his time was a form of a verb which meant "to desire," "to long for" (Latin: desidero). You know, of course, that Melanchthon wrote an epitaph for Erasmus: "Eras mus omnia rodere solitus [You were a mouse that always...