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Among them is Tobias, an unbeliever, who has felt himself somehow impelled to embark upon a pilgrimage to Jerusalem on behalf of an unknown woman whom he had found dead with the stigmata-the marks of the Crucifixion. Attached to Tobias is Diana, a once beautiful woman turned promiscuous slattern, who ridicules the idea of the pilgrimage and tags along only to be with him. Ahasuerus joins them, and the three unbelievers set out on a strange, symbolic pilgrimage several days' journey behind the other pilgrims...
...inaugurated a new seminar this semester entitled Classical Philology 299b, The Culex: an Introduction to Latin Textual Criticism. Among the recondite aims of this course will be "practice in reading and collating MSS, making an apparatus criticus, and establishing a "text." It may be helpful to those ready to embark on so perilous a trek in the groves of Academe to halt a moment and take heed of A.E. Housman's published Remarks on the Culex (1902). THE EDITORS...
...bloc. The usually liberal-minded Ivy Leaguers recognized wherein the threat lies, and a surprising majority (86%) stated that the U.S. should become more aggressive in the cold war. Ninety-five percent thought that the Soviet Union usually assumes the initiative, thus making it imperative for the U.S. to embark upon unprecedented offensive maneuvers. Among the most frequent suggestions as to how the battle should be carried out was through "foreign economic aid and trade." Others stressed intensified propaganda, fomenting revolts and supporting such to the utmost...
Surging Stocks. Rather than embark upon a massive new silver purchase program, Kennedy decided to take the Government out of the silver market and to have the Treasury meet its needs for coinage silver out of its currency-backing reserves. As a first step, he ordered that the 10% of $5 and $10 bills now backed by silver should gradually be replaced by Federal Reserve notes, a move that will ultimately free 500 million ounces of the reserve silver for use in coins. He also promised to ask Congress for authority to discontinue silver backing for $1 and $2 bills...
While Harvard was forced to embark on a nation-wide alumni fund drive to raise money from College graduates, Brown was able to get $3 million from all the people of Rhode Island, by selling itself as an "integral part of the community." One can only wonder at the effect of such a local appeal campaingn in the Greater Cambridge area...