Word: phaedo
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...Friend Corliss Lament sent round his suggestions for summer reading in Maine-the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, etc. "I haven't told you about Groton and dear Dwight," young Anne Morrow writes to her sister from Smith College. "He was so sweet and dear and such fun." With a certain pleasant gush, these fragments evoke an age-the long-gone innocence of growing up in Englewood, N.J., in an atmosphere of affluent rectitude and Jamesian family tours of the Continent...
Read Plato's Critias (only twelve pages) or the last ten of the Phaedo...
...Tudor park that our good friend and scholar, Roger Aseham, first caught sight of Lady Jane Grey. The little child of thirteen summers was reading ". . . Phaedo Platonis, and that with as much delights as some gentelmen would read a merrie tale in Roeeaeeio." The Duke and Duchess, hunting in the glade nearby, had been abusing her cruelly, for they pinched her if she danced ". . . they, good people, knew not what pleasure meant." The scholar felt himself drawn to this tender young flower of learning, and he watched her as she grow up in the court of Edward VI. At fifteen...
...other speakers who took part in last night's audition, with their orations, were: D. M. Sullivan '33. "The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates from Plato's "Phaedo," translated by Benjamin Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, "The Decline of the Drama" by Stephen Leacock; Albert Allen '33, a selection from "Sticks and Stones" by Lewis Mumford; and A. L. Gordon '34, "Address before the Suffolk Bar Association," February 5, 1885, by Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...program for the contest will be as follows: J. C. Wills '32. "The Congo" by Vachel Lindsay; D. M. Sullivan '33. The Forsaken Merman", by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates, from Plato's "Phaedo", translated by Banjami Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, selection from a speech before the American Bar Association on March 8, 1930, by Frank I. Kellogg; H. D. Patterson '34, selection from "The Decline of the Drama", by Stephen Leacock...