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...Iliad and the Odyssey were learned by every Greek school boy; every child was taught his first lines of the Iliad, just as at present he is taught his A. B, C. For the Greeks saw how beautifully every phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great and noble men without a knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey. "A beautiful mirror of human life at its best," says some one of the Odyssey...
...Allen will meet any students who wish information about his courses on Saturday Sept. 29, between 9 and 11 A. M., in Sever 15. Instruction in the several courses will begin as follows in Sever 15: Greek and Latin 2, Oct. 1, 11 A. M.; Latin 11, (Ovid) Oct. 2, 11 A. M.; Latin 7, Oct. 2, 3 P. M.; Greek 11, (Homer...
...Latin 11, the course in colloquial Latin, disappears, its place being taken by the second composition course, Latin 7, in which speaking and writing Latin will be taught. Prof. Allen will have a new course, in place of his course on the Roman Drama, on the critical study of Ovid. In Greek and Latin there will be no change. Prof. Greenough will take his old course, and Prof. Allen will repeat his lectures of last year on "The History and Methods of Classical Study...
...Caesar, Sallust and Ovid...
CANDIDATES for second-year honors in classics will substitute Ovid's Fasti for Lucan's Pharsalia. The list as corrected stands : Cicero, De Officiis ; Caesar, Civil War ; Virgil, Georgics and AEneid, - Books VII. - XII., inclusive; Ovid, Fasti...