Word: xenophon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...change of curriculum effected in 1787. Up to that time the Latin and Greek provided had consisted of Virgil Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament. By the changes made in 1787 the students were to read in Latin, Horace, Sallust and Cicero "de Oratore;" and in Greek, Xenophon and Homer. Even this was not a more advanced curriculum than that of the best preparatory schools of the present time. The study of mathematics was probably not carried much beyond geometry. Harvard, then, had 300 students and Princeton 130. A student's annual expenses at Harvard were about...
...Professor Goodwin's first lecture on "Plato, Socrates and the Sophists." The lecture was intended more particularly for the freshmen who are about to begin the Crito and the Apology, but it was likewise enjoyed by a number of upper-classmen and instructors. It is from Plato and Xenophon that we get all our knowledge about Socrates, his philosophy and his personality. It is hard to state in terms what was Socrates' philosophical scheme. In fact, Professor Goodwin said that Socrates was much like our own Mr. Emerson who prided himself on having no scheme of his own. Not-withstanding...
...urge upon your trustees the creation of travelling scholarships to facilitate attendance at the school of graduates of moderate means. To all classical students the school affords an opportunity to pursue their studies under competent direction among a people whose literary language is less different from that of Xenophon than his from that of Herodotus; to those interested in epigraphy and history it gives access to the richest existing store of Greek inscriptions and to all the famous sites of Hellas; while to American students of Greek art and archaeology it throws open upon equal terms helds of inquiry until...