Word: virgil
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...decided to add the following courses to the curriculum of the Summer School this year: Homer (for teachers); Virgil (for teachers); Classical Archeology (for teachers and students); Anglo-Saxon; Intermediate German (for teachers); Introductory Phonetics (for teachers and students); Dante (for teachers and students); Advanced Spanish (for teachers); Roman, European and American History; Civil Government; Advanced Comparative Psychology; General Principles of Education; Organization and Administration of Schools; History of Education: Theory of Pure Design; Drawing and Painting; Theory of Architectural Design: History of European Architecture to 1000 A.D.; Organic Chemistry; Research Work...
...Classics, Greek A, 16, 13 1hf. and 14 2hf., and Latin A. 14 1hf. and 9 2hf. will be dropped. Professor Morgan and Dr. E. K. Rand are to give a new full course, Latin 15, on The Works of Virgil, with studies of his Sources and his Literary Influence from his own times to the Renaissance. Seventeen courses in Classical Philology will be dropped, and in their stead the same number of new ones will be given...
There will be four new courses on Latin literature, and its history. Course 15, on the works of Virgil will be discontinued...
...nature of our "modern system of athletic sports," which was introduced about 1812 by the Military College at Sandhurst, England, and compares the old Greek athletics,--their rules, methods and manners--with our own. Then follow several descriptions of ancient athletic contests as they have been recorded by Virgil--the boat races, the foot races, the wrestling contests, the sparring match and the archery contest of Anchises' funeral games. With these pictures of the Roman games and their standards of competition are contrasted descriptions of our modern college athletics and the contrast, as Mr. Collier draws it, is certainly unfavorable...
...College Library has lately received from Dr. S. A. Green, Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a copy of Virgil "ad usum Delphini," printed in London in 1:40, which has served four generations of Harvard graduates as a text book; it bears the school-boy autographs of its last three owners, while the name of the first owner has been written by another, presumably by his father. The successive users of the book were Joshua Green, of the Class of 1749, his son Joshua, of the class of 1784, his grandson Joshua, of the class...