Word: lucretius
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students for the ignorance of the professors in regard to athletics, was altogether too strongly tinctured with contempt. The counsel of a dyspeptic professor on the conduct of undergraduate sports is calculated to excite the derision and despite of the sporting undergraduate. The professor is the disinterested observer of Lucretius, who, from the shore, inspects the great labor of another in the vaist of the boat, or who cushions the top rail of a fence, and from that tranquil eminence looks out from under an umbrella, and through spectacles probably green, at the futile yearnings of the left fielder after...
...classical subjects of chief interest treated of in the forthcoming volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica are Lucretius and Martial by Prof. Sellars, Lucian by Mr. Paley, Lysias by Professor Jebb...
...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...
...that there do not present themselves, in Latin literature, works of a nature to be entertaining to a popular audience? Surely no devotee of Latin would acknowledge its narrowness to be of so alarming a character. Would listeners who crowd to hear Sophocles and Homer find no attractions in Lucretius and Virgil? Would those who take a rollicking delight in Aristophanes, fail to respond to Plautus...
ADDITIONAL prizes for Bowdoin Dissertations have been awarded as follows: a prize of seventy-five dollars to N. G. Taylor, '80, for a translation into Greek; a prize of seventy-five dollars to J. Quincy, '80, for a dissertation on Lucretius as the Precursor of Modern Positivism and Fatalism...