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COMMENCEMENT parts have been assigned to the following Seniors; G. F. Canfield, oration, "Plato's Moral Philosophy"; A. S. Thayer, oration, "Are Time and Space subjective?" J. S. O'Callaghan, oration, "Fatalism"; H. Preble, Latin oration; R. Montague, dissertation, "The Platonic Idea"; W. T. Campbell, dissertation, "The Evolution of Musical Thought"; N. Taylor, disquisition, "State Rights...
...Latin Readings. Prof. Everett will meet graduates twice a week to extend their acquaintance with the Latin Historians and Poets...
...examples of flatness, we may quote the statements that "Columbus is dead"; that " the Cathedral [of Pisa] is built in the form of a Latin cross,"-nothing more being said of the building; and that " before me lay Naples, while on the right, old Vesuvius was sending forth its dense columns of white smoke." Of the Bay of Naples no further mention is made...
...intended for Juniors, Seniors, and such Sophomores as have already elected some Latin and find themselves unable to take a three-hour elective. It is of a literary and philosophical character. Cicero de Finibus is generally allowed to be the finest specimen of philosophical Latin prose; it is as hard as any of Cicero's works except the strictly legal orations. It is proposed to read the first two books of this treatise; the first an exposition of Epicurus's ethics, the second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius...
...taking a course in Latin, as in every subject, the teachers earnestly invite personal application in advance to them, to save all misapprehension on the part of the student, and to enable them to understand as clearly as possible what are his needs. This remark applies particularly to the courses in composition...