Word: classics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Classics, two literature courses have been added, and of the eight courses in Classic Philology, seven are new. In the English, French and German departments, the language courses remain the same, with additions, however, to the literature courses in each case. Professor Munsterberg will give three new courses in the department of Philosophy. There are seven new courses in advanced mathematics...
Highest Final Honors in Classic...
...Pasteur medal, which will be awarded to the best speaker in the debate, has recently been received from France by Professor de Sumichrast. In full relief on the face of the medal is the head of a girl in classic head-dress and wreathed with laurel, typifying the spirit of the French Republic. On the back is a scroll bearing the date 1900, surrounded by oak, laurel and Egyptian palm leaves. "University Harvard Medaile Pasteur" is inscribed about the scroll. The medal is two and one-half inches in diameter and contains five hundred Frances's worth of gold...
...required for admission to College instead of the present syntax and inflections. . . . Leave the Latin language to the philologists; so wretched and grotesque a shadow as the Latin now in the average mind is not worth fighting for." We have heard the claim advanced by a modern Greek that classic Greek should be taught as a living language because modern Greek is a living continuation of it. Professor Santayana's position is somewhat similar: He regards the Roman culture and language from the point of view of the so-called Latin races of Europe. He fails to take into account...
...mastery of his subject his published writings give but fragmentary evidence. One volume, indeed, that on Banking, in which he presents systematically and concisely the mature results of prolonged investigation and reflection, is, in the opinion of experts, a classic in the literature of monetary theory and practice. On other subjects his essays are few; but they are all notable for abundant information, acute reasoning, and a dignified and flowing style. By his conduct of the Quarterly Journal of Economics for ten years and by his contributions to its pages, he added to the reputation of the University...