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...Parker has formed a small private class to study the Stoic Philosophy in comparison with the teaching of St. Paul. This course differs considerably from his university course on Stoicism in the first century. Ten lectures are to be given on Thursday afternoons at 4.30, at No. 8 Garden street, beginning to morrow. The lecturer will read privately, and discuss a limited number of papers by members of the class. Mr. Parker can be consulted today at his house, 60 Shepard street, between 5 and 6 p. m. The class is open to women...
...Cynics were a branch of the Stoics as shown by the fact that Epictetus, the great Cynic leader, was sometimes called a Cynic, sometimes a Stoic...
...Latin 4 (Satires and Epistles of Horace) one or more of the following topics will be assigned: Lucilius; his themes, metres and style. The life of Horace. Horace's conception of Satire. Maecenas' literary circle; its membership and character. Table-manners in the Augustan Age. Character studies: The Stoic preacher. The legacy hunter. The sorceress...
...ease their wounds, nothing but the coldest of water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends a man tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic who delights, like Caesar's Germans, to lave his sturdy limbs in ice water; the streams of Socrate have turned hot ere he reaches the bath, and he may count himself happy an he is not scalded alive like a miserable shellfish. Dear Masters, why should these things...
...Sanford, is, to say the least, a strange effort. It is incongruous and decidedly lacks force. The Latin quotations mar the form and weaken the passion aimed at by the writer. One does not quote a Latin translation of Homer in the death agony; and for a Stoic to die with Horace on his lips provokes undesirable reasoning...