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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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Exchange Student: Chinese campus more tolerant than NYU0
- Culture
- July 20, 2016
Ella Reider said she didn’t quite know what to expect prior to her study abroad in the People’s Republic of China. Reider, a Global Liberal Studies major at NYU who recently completed her sophomore year, is spending the year immersing herself in Chinese culture and learning the nation’s language at NYU-Shanghai, a portal campus the
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10 Insults from Ancient Rome (in English and Latin)0
- Western Civilization
- July 20, 2016
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‘Vital Campus Dialogue is Being Snuffed Out’0
- Culture
- July 20, 2016
In a new mini documentary produced by We The Internet, former Brown University student Rob Montz visits his alma mater to ask an increasingly relevant question: “Is the university killing free speech and open debate?” In the course of the documentary, Montz details recent instances of student activism on the Brown campus, many of which
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Who Said It: Famous Philosopher Or Disney Character?0
- Education
- July 19, 2016
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When Religious Freedom and Gender Equality Collide0
- Culture
- July 19, 2016
What happens when religious freedom affronts feminist sensibility? The question came to the fore earlier this month when female teachers at a high school in Germany boycotted the school’s graduation ceremony in protest at the refusal of a male Muslim student to shake hands with a female teacher on the grounds of modesty. Although the
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Oxford Scholar: A Remedy for the Decline of Knowledge0
- Culture
- July 19, 2016
When I was 9, I somehow ended up in a grade school musical entitled Tracers of Lost Parts of Speech. The play used a mild mystery format peppered with songs to teach young children about nouns, adverbs, prepositions, and their many other blood relatives. While I enjoyed being in the play, my 4th grade friends
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Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today5
- Education, Literature
- July 19, 2016
I recently dug up a 1908 curriculum manual in the Minnesota Historical Society archives. It provided instructions on everything from teacher deportment to recommended literature lists for various grades. As a book lover, I was especially interested in the latter! With the exception of a few textbook-like anthologies, the chart below lists the recommended reading material for
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James Madison on the Separation of Church and State1
- History
- July 19, 2016
It’s not unusual to witness discussions on the topic of whether or not the United States was founded “as a Christian nation.” (Or, worded slightly differently, whether or not America had a Christian founding.) The answer to this question depends largely on semantics. On one hand, the Founding Fathers were overwhelmingly Christian and built a
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