Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Scientific School has added to its requirements for admission in 1895, botany and French, either two, the latter to be translated at sight in easy sentences. In Latin, one more book of Virgil is added, and also an examination is required in certain standard English works. Part of the new requirements can be taken at the preliminary examinations this year...
Dante and Petrarch do not belong to the same school. Dante was still of the mediaeval times, for he thought only of the universe and the city of God, and Virgil was interesting to him only because they led him through the universe. But Petrarch thought of the present world, the life of to-day, and the classics were interesting to him as expressions of men's lives at that time. Petrarch was a "humanist." Dante still clung to the religious beliefs and drawbacks of mediaeval times...
Garvin Douglass was another of these men. He translated Virgil and wrote a good many poems himself. His work contains much honor and pathos but is written in such difficult language that it is little known. Last came Sir David Lindsay who, during his life was the most popular poet in Scotland. He was a reformer in the form of a poet. He wrote the bitterest satires and invectives against the political and social evils of his time and exercised a great influence upon the Cort...
...noticeable change has taken place in the requirements for admission to the Sheffield Scientific School. One book of Virgil has been added to the requirements, and examinations in English, French or German, Botany, and English History will be necessary. These changes will go into effect...
Seminary of Classical Philology. Paper by Mr. F. K. Ball on The Influence of the Verse on Inflexion in Virgil's Hexameters; by Mr. E. D. McCollom, on the Parable in Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode. Sever...