Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first directors of the Annex, which has since become Radcliffe College. His writings on classical subjects, however, have done most to make him known. The Allen and Greenough Latin Grammar has had a very wide use in schools. He has also edited editions of Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace and Livy, and was an active contributor to various periodicals and to the proceedings of many learned societies. His other works include an Analysis of the Latin Subjunctive, privately issued in 1870, and frequent articles in the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, a publication which owes its origin...
About this time (1803) the authorities raised the standard of admission, and required examinations in Dalzel's "Collectanea Graeca Minora," the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero, with a knowledge of Greek and Latin grammars. The candidates had to be well versed in geography and arithmetic...