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  • What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago

    What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago1

    • July 20, 2016

    Here is the curriculum for Columbia University (“King’s College” at the time) in 1763. As you look through this list, keep in mind that the average age of the first-year student was fifteen! First Year Sallust, Historia Caesar, Commentaries Ovid, Metamorphoses Virgil, Eclogues Aesop, Fables Lucian, Dialogues ?New Testament Grotius, De Veritate Latin Grammar Greek Grammar English & Latin Themes Cornelius Nepos

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  • What Ivy League Professors Could Learn from George Washington

    What Ivy League Professors Could Learn from George Washington0

    Back in 2005, The Washington Post reported on a Gallup poll asking Americans which U.S. president was the greatest. At the time, men like Reagan, Clinton, and Lincoln led the pack. America’s first president, however, had only five percent support for top slot, leading the WaPo to quip that George Washington would “find it necessary

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  • What It Was Like Meeting My Country Neighbors—and Why You Should Meet Yours

    What It Was Like Meeting My Country Neighbors—and Why You Should Meet Yours6

    Recently, I was in search of trout, but my search resulted in more than just fish. I’ve been a fly fisherman for over a decade, but when I moved to Wisconsin a few years back, I lost easy access to my favorite haunts. So I was searching for a new stretch of untouched waters to

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  • What Is Your Medieval Name According To Your Birthday?

    What Is Your Medieval Name According To Your Birthday?0

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  • What is Writing? Why We Misunderstand the Coming of ChatGPT

    What is Writing? Why We Misunderstand the Coming of ChatGPT2

    Is high-school English dead? A Dec. 9 article published in The Atlantic by Daniel Herman, a high-school English teacher, says yes. Herman asserts that the new AI chat program ChatGPT drastically changes the nature of education, especially the teaching of writing. The software can respond to prompts of almost any kind—even very complicated ones—in a

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  • What is wealth?

    What is wealth?0

    • October 6, 2015

    Most of the time we think that lots of money means lots of wealth. But that really depends on where you live. To emphasize that point, consider Zimbabwe’s run-away inflation from a number of years ago. Here is a $100-trillion-dollar-bill from the era: And if you had that bill, you were still dirt poor because

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