Word: lucretius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liberal Arts: Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Lucretius, Aurelius, Cicero, Plotinus, Augustine, Bonaventura, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Calvin, Spinoza, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Hume...
...Petrenius should be omitted and lectures substituted. Neither Professor Greenenor Mr. Peebles present the course as well as concentrators believed they might, although the organization is all right. Latin Composition seems to be fairly well taught in Latin 3. The first half of Latin 8, dealing with Cicero and Lucretius, will be given by Mr. Mynors of Balliol College, Oxford. The second half on Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, is taken by Professor Pease to whom the adjective "old-fashioned" is applied...
Although the competition rules specify that orations may be in Latin, or Greek, Gordon M. Messing '38, who delivered excerpts from "De Rerum Natura," by Lucretius, was the only contestant who did not choose a selection in English...
Only one of the competitors, Gordon N. Messing '38, chose a Latin selection, reciting parts from Lucretius' "De Rerum Naturae." Other recitations ranged from excerpts from James Joyce to passages from a speech made by Senator Claude Pepper on the 1937 Appropriation Act. The finals, open to the public, will be held in Paine Hall on Wednesday evening, March...
...Last year, eleven years after her preacher-professor husband's death, she settled down at Claremont to get a modern master's degree. She has not missed a single session of her six philosophy and classics seminars, has typed a 25,000-word thesis on "Lucretius as a Poet of Nature'' since Christmas. Spry, tiny, bespectacled, she is mother of eleven, grandmother of eleven, great-grandmother of three. She plans to take a short vacation before commencing work on her doctor's degree...