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...many of the translations Ferry read attested to his remarkable success in this regard. One of the odes of Horace Ferry performed, for example, was a lament addressed to Horace’s friend and fellow poet Virgil over the death of their friend, the respected scholar Quintilian. In Latin, the poem has Horace’s characteristic untranslatable syntactic gymnastics; but it is also a gripping dialectic on the nature of loss and mourning. Ferry’s reading preserved the intense emotional experience of the poet, even as Horace’s linguistic virtuosity was transformed by Ferry?...
...least 25 times. These, plus most of his other nominations for great books are on the recommended list of How to Read a Book. However, 28 authors that he recommended in 1940 have disappeared from the new edition. The missing authors include Henry Adams and Trotsky, along with Quintilian and Maimonides. They were banished because subsequent readings convinced Adler that they were not really first-rate, or because they provoked too little discussion at his seminars...
...notion that learning should be hard gets little backing from psychologists. The Roman schoolmaster Quintilian, 1,900 years ago, said: "A student should strive for victory, yes, but it must be arranged that he gains it. In this way, let us draw forth his powers with both praise and rewards." Such views lead psychologists to take a dim view of modern education...
...House matches, Dick Quintilian of Adams House will wrestle Ed Cross of Dunster House. In the 130 lb. class, Bob Weiler of Dunster will meet Dave McLean of Leverett. In the 137 lb. division, Bob Holmes of Leverett will take on Bob Collier of Dudley, while Frank Fawcett of the Bellboys meets Bob McLaughlin of the Puritans...
...Quintilian Dixit . . . According to Sweet, today's Latin teachers are guilty of one of two errors. Error 1 is that they try to do as the Romans did, falling for some advice from old Quintilian (1st century) that "the children should begin by learning to decline nouns and conjugate verbs." By this method, pupils spend arduous hours memorizing rules and words, just as their predecessors did in Rome. The big trouble, says Sweet, is that the Roman youngsters already spoke Latin, while modern students...