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...vast majority of the fall workers will probably be cleaning bathrooms or emptying trash for dorm crew throughout the rest of the school rear, said Martin H. Homer, director of student employment...
...seminars this summer for high school faculty members. The program offered no formal academic credits but did pay teachers up to $2,125 for six weeks while they went back to college for the luxury of studying a great book or two, and all the right stuff: Plato, Thucydides, Homer, Vergil, Chaucer, Alexis de Tocqueville, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann...
...about 40 applicants who were on the same level academically as the 15 we picked," says Karl Galinsky, chairman of the classics department at the University of Texas in Austin; he sought the aid of a local high school teacher in reviewing applications for his course on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid...
...spacious and sunny room in Waggener Hall, Galinsky last week joined his class of teachers, who clustered informally around a conference table. There was a communal feeling in the group during the friendly discussion. Galinsky wondered if his class saw any change from Homer to Vergil in the ancient poets' view of man in society. Said Barbara Kane, a classical studies teacher from Spring Lake, N.J.: "In the Aeneid, there's a definite movement away from the focus on the individual per se-you have a national responsibility to the group." Said Tom Ahern, who teaches Latin...
Asked Galinsky: "Would you say that what Homer is doing is more primitive, reflecting an earlier stage of society?" Answered John Amoroso, a history teacher from Boston: "I think that what Vergil is trying to do here is to domesticate some of the virtues that we find in Homer. The problem with the Homeric hero is, ultimately, that he takes individualism to an extreme. In Homer, you could never see a domesticated hero. It's a contradiction of terms. With Vergil, we're seeing the heroic within the social fabric...