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...Seneca, "Select Letters." By E. C. Winslow, A. M., professor in Wabash College...
Professor J. L. Lincoln gave an interesting lecture on "Marcus Aurelius" last week before the Rhode Island Historical Society. He considered the stoic philosophy as it was originally held in Greece, then at Rome in the time of Seneca, and finally as it was taught by Marcus Aurelius himself in his writings and illustrated in his life. Professor Bailey read a paper a few days ago before the Franklin Society on the "Correlation of Insects with the Flower." He has made several notable discoveries in the line of insect visits to flowers, and on the basis of these has advanced...
...Carpe diem." - SENECA...
...judgment on events in which sometimes he has himself played a part, or at least taken sides, and that, too, in a country so often shaken and its government overturned by successive revolutions. In this year philosophy is begun. Certain of the Greek, Latin, and French philosophers are read, - Seneca, Cicero, Plato, Xenophon, Descartes, Pascal, Fenelon, Bossuet. These authors are analyzed and philosophical dissertations made thereon...