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...Walling, December 1, 1913, and John Spargo, December 9, 1913, both in Emerson D); World League to Secure Peace (Hamilton Holt, April 7, 1914, in Emerson D); pacifism (Norman Angell, February 14, 1914, in Emerson D, and April 16, 1914, in the New Lecture Hall); Christian Science (Virgil O. Strickler, March 13, 1914, in Emerson D); Woman Suffrage (Helen Todd, November 8, 1913, Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, April 2, 1914, and Norman Hapgood, March 20, 1914, all in Emerson D); Scientific Management (F. W. Taylor, three lectures in 1913, in a College room). In all these cases, in accordance with...
...locomotive engineer, who, having finished beginner's Latin, is going on with advanced work for pleasure. Railway clerks, men in mining camps, lawyers and doctors, ministers and court reporters are fellow students. A girl who gives her occupation as tub mending is deep in the translation of Virgil. Instructors of science and mathematics feeling that their training has been too specialized are studying Latin, and Catholic sisters are taking courses to improve their teaching. Evidently under such a system many people, heretofore unable to receive a liberal education, are being helped and they vindicate the introduction of this progressive method...
...such as would be gained, for instance, by combining into one examination the separate tests in grammar, elementary prose composition, and Cicero and sight translation of prose, or by using the comprehensive papers which the University, Princeton, and Yale employ; a reduction in the amount of prescribed reading in Virgil and in Cicero with the provision that the prescribed portions of the text should be changed every few years...
...classics is somewhat difficult. If, however, we were to follow Mr. Palmer's suggestion of "unscrambling" the classics, we would be only creating another chaos. Specialization in a certain field is, of course, of importance for the graduate student. But I cannot see how an undergraduate can enjoy Virgil without learning to appreciate the language, the rhythm, the imagination, the patriotic fervor, and the human characteristics of the great poet, whose vitality cannot be extinguished even by the wave of our modernism. We must not make Tacitus merely an object of linguistic or literary or historical study...
...product of the Aldine Press. It is also the oldest, its date being 1501. Aldus Pius Manutius was a Venetian and did some of the most excellent work of any of the earlier printers. He reached the height of his art in 1501 when he printed editions of Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Martial. Of the edition of Virgil only a few defective copies remain. It is impossible to find even a nearly perfect volume. Aldus also was the inventor of italics...