Word: plautus
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...Plautus, "Menaechmi," based upon the edition of Brix. By Harold N. Fowler, Ph. D., professor Phillips Exeter Academy...
...Comedies of Plautus will soon be read in Latin...
Those who believe that he only is truly educated who can point out a Greek root in an English derivative, and quote Sophocles and Plautus, will hold the view that Harvard's walls will be filled by "superficial practicalists." Others who believe that educated men should be something beside curiosity hunters in the dead languages will claim that the young men who are to make future discoveries and benefit mankind with living truths, will see at Harvard an opportunity for beginning their good work. If this latter view be true, there is being planted the seed of a national university...
...worry and disturbance which the classics appear at present to be undergoing at the hands of our faculty, let us remember that some things still deserve attention until proved to be worthless. Whether the future freshman shall offer a supposed knowledge of the use of the ablative in Plautus or the power of reaching a mathematical infinity, as his claim for admittance, is of small moment with respect to one matter. We can well afford to allow the future freshman to fret and terrify his soul over the classics, but we who have passed the slough of despond require none...
Nine "co-eds" of Washington University, St. Louis, will soon give a dramatic presentation of one of the comedies of Plautus...