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...SMITH, '80 read his prize dissertation on Garribaldi, Wednesday, March 31. J. Quincy read prize dissertation on Lucretius, Thursday, April 1. Other dissertations will be read after the recess...
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...
...Greek, 1. AEschylus's Agamemnon. 2. Demosthenes and AEschines de Corona. 3. Greek Composition. In Latin, 1. Cicero de Officiis. 2. Lucretius de Rerum Natura, Book VI. 3. Tacitus's Germania, for which Halm's text will be used. They will also be examined in reading and translating Latin at sight. In Mental Science, I. Herbert Spencer's First Principles. 2. Herbert Spencer's First Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1. In Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Analytics, Differential and Integral Calculus...
EVENING READINGS. The course for this year will be held at 7 1/2 o'clock in Harvard Hall, up stairs, and as follows: Fridays, Prof. Everett, Lucretius; Wednesdays, Prof. Palmer, The Odyssey from Book 19; Thursdays, Prof. Bocher, Moliere...
...always have been, and it is hoped always will be taught. No. 8 is exclusively the imperial, and 9 the republican authors. The first presents a thorough picture of Rome under the Emperors, from the hands of the greatest writers of that age. The second introduces the student to Lucretius, by many regarded as the greatest Latin poet, and much talked about now for the profundity and power of his philosophical speculation. Few writers are more amusing than Plautus. A restriction with reference to 9 will be noticed on the scheme of study...