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Professor E. K. Rand '94 lectured at the Summer Session of the University of California for six weeks. In the Latin Department he lectured on Ovid and in the Historical on Classical Culture. In company with Professors G. P. Baker '87, G. D. Birkoff '05, A. N. Holcombe, E. G. Boring, J. B. Conant '14, and Mrs. G. P. Baker, formerly acting Dean of Radcliffe College, he returned to Cambridge via Alaska and the Canadian Pacific Railroad. On July 17th Professor Rand and his colleagues mentioned above, who were also lecturing at the University of California, were the guests...
Under an imported ceiling depicting the more unprintable scenes from Ovid, she held "salons" in Old World style-and thither flocked celebrities American and European. She hired a lion from Bostock Circus, took it home for a pet. She mastered jiu jitsu, and many a corpulent matron strove to do likewise to keep up. She admired Sandow, famed strong man, and sat unconcernedly in ' box to see Jim Corbett, at a time when such behavior was, for a lady, unheard of. She hired Paderewski on one occasion, distributing tickets to all who wished to hear him. She sponsored...
...early University period of Milton's work", Professor Lowes said, "during which he wrote much admirable Latin verse, is interesting because it shows the influences acting to form the man, and because it foreshadows what is to come. At this time Milton was steeped in the work of Ovid, and showed the power, which he later developed to a great extent, to assimilate and present the material which he read...
...leaning toward the classics is shown by the disappearance of Sophocles, Petronius, and Ovid. O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, Conrad and others of similar nature are found to offer special temptation. For a time there were fatalities among the war books, but they later returned to service on the shelves...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "The Greek Colony of Olbia." Mr. C. E. McGuire. "The Hypodzomata of Greek Ships." Mr. E. G. Schauroth. "The Causes of Ovid's Exile." Mr. J. S. Galbraith. Harvard...