Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under a painful duty of drumming up trade at these gatherings, while now it if so customary to find Emerson D overflowing long before the scheduled hour of the lecture, that it sometimes seems a case of the less said, the better. Professor Rand's lecture today on Virgil, the second of the series designed to guide men studying for general examinations, beings in this class. At the first lecture of the series, there was such a large audience that many of those for whom it was particularly intended, coming late, were turned away. Professor Rand, besides being a classical...
Professor Rand's subject this afternoon will be the "Life and Works of Virgil" and he will supplement his talks by readings from translations of Virgil's poetry. He has been a professor at the University since 1909, and has been the author of numerous articles on classical and medieval subjects and is the editor and translator of Boethius' "Opuscula Sacra", and "Consolatis "Philosophicae...
...Emerson D, before an audience which filled and overflowed the large class room. Professor Palmer expressed the purpose of the series by saying that it was designed for those who have neither the time nor the inclination to make a detailed study of the four great poets: Homer, Virgil, Dante and Milton...
...connect a doubtful metrical translation of Greek tragedies with the University's series of lectures on the four great epic poets given by eminent authorities. But both accomplish the same purpose; a sympathetic appreciation of the spirit of the originals. Few undergraduates read Milton thoroughly, still fewer know Virgil and Dante beyond a few memorized lines repeated parrot-fashion, and relatively a handful have ever dipped into Homer. For the rest, and for this intellectual aristocracy as well, Professor Palmer's lecture this afternoon will open a vista into an unknown world...
Professor E. K. Rand '94 will speak on February 21 on Virgil, and on February 28, Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 will talk on Dante. Professor J. L. Lowes '03 will give the last of the series of lectures on March 7, with Milton as his subject...