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Thirty-Fifth National Convention tions that are available will be listed for your choice. at Beta Kappa Chapter Arrangements have been made for a group picture to be taken at the Beta Kappa Chapter at the College wood Room. The hotel is located in Saturday morning meeting. Chapters of Notre Dame of Maryland, Balti­ the heart of the city at Calvert and who desire a print may order them more, is nourishing the hope that all Baltimore Streets. It is within easy at the time of registration. A tour of the chapters of Eta Sigma Phi will be access from Camden Station (Balti­ the city is planned for Friday afternoon able to send one or more delegates to more and Ohio Railroad), from Union —of at least that much of the city that Baltimore when the fraternity meets Station (Pennsylvania Railroad), and can be seen in the short time at our dis­ there for its Thirty-fifth National from the Greyhound and Trailways posal. It will include the Walters Art Convention at the Emerson Hotel, on Bus Terminals; limousine service is Gallery, with a view of its ancient March 22 and 23, 1963. supplied from Friendship International collection conducted by Miss Dorothy Airport to the hotel. U. S. Highway Kent Hill, the Curator of Ancient Art Mary Elizabeth Klein, Prytanis of route 40 leads to the city. Garage fa­ at the Gallery; Fort McHenry; the har­ Beta Kappa Chapter, Jarritus Boyd, cilities are available. bor; the Johns Hopkins Medical Cen­ Grammateus, Sarel Fuchs, Chairman ter; some of Baltimore's famous row of the Convention' Committee, extend Rooms will be ready for occupancy houses, with their white steps, and its a cordial invitation to each one. on Thursday, March 21. Reservations equally famous Pimlico Race Course. Beta Chi Chapter at Loyola College, should be made immediately if they Dinner will be served on Friday through its Prytanis, Mr. Thomas Ken- have not already been arranged. Upon evening at 6:30 at the College of Notre ney, Beta Tau of Georgetown, through arrival, it would be well to come to the Dame of Maryland, 4701 North Mr. Daniel O'Leary, Prytanis, and Mezzanine Floor, outside the Wedge- Charles Street, in Mary Meletia Hall. Gamma Xi, Howard University, wood Room, to register and to secure Sister Margaret Mary, President of the through Prytanis Dorothy Brown, join tickets for the annual subscription din­ College will welcome the delegates. with Beta Kappa in welcoming the ner ($3.00 per person) and other in­ After dinner, in the Little Theatre of chapters to Baltimore and making formation before going to your room. Fourier Building, Miss Dorothy E. them feel at home in unfamiliar sur­ Members of Beta Kappa and Beta Chi Miner, Librarian and Keeper of Manu­ roundings. Chapters will be on hand. scripts at the Walters Art Gallery, will The Emerson Hotel will be head­ For those who arrive early enough give an illustrated talk on Mediaeval quarters for the Convention, and all on Thursday, Baltimore offers a variety Manuscript Illumination. A reception meetings will be held in the Wedge- of evening entertainment. Some selec­ will follow in Fourier Lounge.

Photograph courtesy of the College Photograph courtesy of the College Mary Meletia Hall, College of Notre Dame of Maryland Fourier Building, College of Notre Dame of Maryland 18 NUNTIUS

Notre Dame of Maryland is about two miles distant from the hotel, situ­ ated on an estate of sixty-four acres, Thirty-Fifth National Convention which at one time was heavily wooded with oaks and pines, beeches and To Be Held at Baltimore, Maryland, March 22 and 23, 1963 chestnut trees, as well as walnuts and Upon the Invitation of Beta Kappa Chapter, cultivated orchards, flowers and vege­ The College of Notre Dame of Maryland table gardens. It made its own elec­ tricity and pumped water from its ar­ tesian wells, churned butter in its own Friday, March 22, 1963 dairy—a spring house, and winter veg­ etable cellar still exist, though no 8:00- 9:00 A.M. Registration, Mezzanine Floor, Emerson Hotel longer used. Notre Dame is now a part 9:00 A.M. First General Session, Wedgewood Room, Emerson Hotel of city life, but retains much of the Business Meeting natural beauty of its ancient oaks and Minutes of the Thirty-fourth National Convention sloping valley. It was opened in 1873 Roll Call of Chapters and Chapter Reports as a Collegiate Institute for Young La­ Report of Megas Chrysophylax dies, and rapidly expanded its curricu­ Report of Chairman of the Board of Trustees lum so that in 1895 it was chartered Report of the Executive Secretary by an act of the Legislature of the State Report of Standing Committees of Maryland as a four-year Liberal Report of Committee on Expansion and Reactivation Arts College. The first degrees were 12:00 Noon Lunch awarded in 1899. These dates confer 1:15- 5:00 P.M. Tour of Baltimore, including Fort McHenry, Walters Art on the college the distinction of being Gallery, and Pimlico Race Course (Buses will leave from the the first Catholic College for Women Emerson Hotel promptly at 1:15) in the United States. Besides the regu­ lar four-year Liberal Arts curricula, 5:45 P.M. Buses leave the hotel for the campus of the College of Notre Dame the College sponsors Saturday classes of Maryland for the teachers of the city, and Adult 6:30 P.M. Subscription Banquet, Mary Meletia Hall Education courses two evenings a Address of Welcome: Sister Margaret Mary, President of the week. Notre Dame is fortunate in be­ College of Notre Dame of Maryland ing able to share in Baltimore's many Response: Megas Prytanis Richard G. Kemmer offerings in the intellectual, cultural 8:00 P.M. The Little Theater, Fourier Building and social fields. Illustrated address: Masterpieces of Mediaeval Illumination, in March 25 is Lady Day in Maryland Baltimore — Maryland Day — usually a lovely Miss Dorothy E. Miner, Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts, spring day. We are hoping and praying Walters Art Gallery that the three days preceding will be Following the address there will be a reception and social hour equally fine so that the delegates may in the Lounge of Fourier Building know Maryland weather at its best— it can be delightful. Saturday, March 23, 1963 The Convention Committee will greatly appreciate your sending in the 8:30 A.M. Second General Session, Wedgewood Room, Emerson Hotel form with dinner reservations, so that Business Meeting (concluded) all arrangements can be carefully Address by Miss Patricia Thompson, Eta Sigma Phi Scholar, made, and transportation for the tour Summer 1962 be settled. Be sure to send the form Election and Installation of new officers to Miss Sarel Fuchs, Chairman. 1:00 P.M. Adjournment of Thirty-fifth National Convention Prepared by Beta Kappa Chapter.

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Alpha Mu Chapter at the University the battle at North Point. Baltimore Petitions of Missouri, Columbia, has submitted is the only major American seaport Petitions for charters to found chap­ a petition to reactivate the chapter and that has never had an enemy flag fly ters of Eta Sigma Phi have been re­ the reactivation is under the direction above it. of Mr. Ronald B. Hehn, a former Hy­ ceived from the following clubs. Local When the Erie Canal threatened chapters should inform their delegates parchos of Gamma Gamma Chapter, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Baltimore's trade with the West, the to the National Convention concern­ first commercial and passenger rail­ ing the manner in which they should and a member of the National Con­ vention when it met in Huntington, road was built and opened in 1827, the vote when these are brought before the Baltimore and Ohio, with the first Convention. West Virginia. This chapter has been inactive since 1937 and its inactivity passenger station at Mount Clare on The Classical Club Phi Sigma of has been a matter of grave concern to Pratt and Poppleton Streets. It is still Belhaven College, Jackson, Mississippi, your Executive Secretary, since he was there. The Round House contains a has submitted a new petition. The initiated into the Fraternity by that transportation museum, although it is Thirty-fourth National Convention chapter "a few" years ago. It will be not open to the public at present. It did not approve the former petition a pleasure to welcome Alpha Mu was from Baltimore in 1844 that Sam­ from this Club inasmuch as it did not Chapter back to active status. uel Morse sent out the first telegraph feel that the petition was executed in message: "What hath God wrought?" a very persuasive manner nor that the In the Civil War, sympathies were Club was strong enough to support BALTIMORE divided; some of them still seem to ex­ a chapter. Belhaven College was ist. Baltimore has always been a founded in 1883 and now has an en­ The following account of the city of home-owning city, hence the many rollment of 360 students. There are 61 Baltimore, furnished by Beta Kappa streets of row houses wi'th their white students enrolled in the Department of Chapter, was evidently prepared by a marble steps. Somehow, Baltimore has Classics. The Classical Club Phi Sigma Chamber of Commerce which was not retained the intimate atmosphere of a was organized in February 1961 and interested in the educational advan­ small town, while growing into a large has a membership of fifteen. All of tages of the city, since the College of sophisticated city—the nation's sixth the members have signed the petition, Notre Dame, Loyola College, and largest. which is approved by the Dean of the Johns Hopkins University are not College and three members of the fac­ mentioned! Industrial firms and shipping flour­ ulty of the Department. Professor Al­ One hundred years after Lord Balti­ ish since the first World War; also di­ fred P. Hamilton, adviser of Alpha Phi more, sailing in the ARK and the rect passenger and freight service to Chapter at Millsaps College until his Dove, landed at St. Mary's in 1634, Europe via shipping. Now jets from retirement, is now a member of the the Maryland State Legislature, in the International Friendship Airport per­ Department. year 1729, founded Baltimore Town, form this service. The consequent a "cluster of houses around the har­ growth of population mushroomed the The Latin Club of Texas Techno­ bor." Residences were situated as far suburban areas. Large family estates logical College, Lubbock, Texas, has north as Saratoga St. Mt. Vernon Sq. became housing developments (cf. submitted a well - organized and de­ was a woods. Baltimore played a large Homeland, etc.). Apartment houses re­ tailed petitition. Texas Technological part in the Revolutionary War and place individual homes (cf. Charles College, founded in 1923 by the Texas in the adoption of the Constitution of St.). Legislature as a state-supported co­ the United States. The names of some educational college, now has an enroll­ of the streets give testimony to her The central business district, the ment of 10,589. At the present time patriotic fervor; Liberty, Saratoga, early part of Baltimore, is being re­ 192 students are enrolled in Latin Franklin, Lexington. newed and rebuilt. A large CIVIC Classes. Elementary Greek is offered CENTER will contain a shopping cen­ only every other year, but the Depart­ Baltimore has always been a great ter, a convention hall, theatres, etc. ment is requesting permission to extend port city; she has the largest floating Baltimore is said to have an annual the offering in Greek. The Latin Club dry dock in the world. From the end payroll of a Billion dollars. is named the Optimates and was origi­ of the Revolutionary War to the end nally organized in 1928 but it became of the War of 1812, Chesapeake-built inactive during World War II and was ships, the famous full-rigged Baltimore reorganized in 1953. It has a member­ Clippers, plied the seas of the world Delegates are reminded that they ship of thirty and nineteen of these with Baltimore-made goods, and im­ should make their reservations at members who are eligible for Eta ported "the ivory, apes, and peacocks" that give color and imagination to the once, if not already made, directly Sigma Phi have signed the petition, with the Emerson Hotel. which is approved by the Head of the city. Trade such as this was the source Department of Foreign Languages and of many of the fortunes of the men Delegates should return the exe­ the Dean of the School of Arts and whose names appear over and over in its history. Baltimore was in its "gol­ cuted questionnaire which was sent Sciences. The Department of Foreign from the host chapter at once, show­ Languages, of which the Department den age." of Classics is a unit, publishes an at­ After the burning of Washington in ing the number who will attend the tractive brochure giving the offerings 1814 the British tried to take Baltimore banquet, who will tour the city, and of the Department. —"that nest of pirates."" They were who will desire photographs. The defeated at the Battle of North Point questionnaire should be sent to Miss and failed in their attempt to bombard Both of the above-mentioned Col­ Sarel Fuchs, Box 207, Doyle Hall, Col­ leges are fully accredited by the local Fort McHenry. Battle Monument in accrediting agencies and additional Court House Square was erected to the lege of Notre Dame of Maryland, Bal­ agencies. memory of the soldiers who died in timore 10, Maryland. 20 NUNTIUS

Kappa (two years), Gamma Sigma NUNTIUS (two years), Gamma Phi, Gamma Psi, Delta Beta. It is only proper to admit VOL. 37 MARCH, 1963 No. 3 that some of these may have been lost in the mail. But failure to reply makes Published four times during the academic year: November 15, January 15, March 15, and May 15. Sent without charge to all active members of Eta Sigma Phi, for each year in which it impossible for the National Office to dues are paid. Price to others: $1.00 per year. All communications regarding publication or know how many copies of NUNTIUS business should be addressed to The Editor: H. R. Butts, Birmingham-Southern College, Bir­should be sent, and the members have mingham 4, Alabama. paid for their copies of NUNTIUS and Official Publication of Eta Sigma Phi, National Honorary Classical Fraternity, Founded in are entitled to receive them. 1914, Nationalized in 1924, Incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois, June 20, 1927. A matter in which complete co­ Published By Vulcan Printing & Lithographing, Birmingham, Alabama operation is essential is in returning the OFFICERS financial reports which are requested EICHAED G. KEMMER—Marquette University National President each spring for use in making indivi­ PEGGY HAMMEN—Mount Mary College National Vice-President dual income tax returns. The National JUDY THOMPSON—Indiana University...... National Secretary Office must submit a report for each SESSIONS POLK—Mississippi College .-. National Treasurer individual chapter and this must be BOARD OF DIRECTORS received by the local District Directors Professor Graydon W. Regenos (1964) of the Internal Revenue Service not la-^ Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, CHAIRMAN ter than August 31. Most chapters are Professor Gertrude Ewing (1963) very cooperative in this matter but Indiana State College, Terre Haute, Indiana some are not and this makes it most Professor William C. Korfmacher (1964) Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri difficult. Some of the reports which Professor Paul R. Murphy (1965) were requested for last year have Ohio University, Athens, Ohio reached me since my return! Please Professor Norman T. Pratt, Jr. (1965) Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana remember also that you should forward the forms which you receive to the HONORARY PRESIDENT National Office. Professor Gertrude Smith University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois The Medals should be awarded by all of our chapters in the local high EXECUTIVE SECRETARY schools but this is not dorie. You might Professor H. R. Butts Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham 4, Alabama be interested in some statistics concern­ ing the distribution of the sale of med­ als by states, not by chapters, and most of these orders come from high school prior to the meeting of the annual From Your Editor teachers: Alabama, 1; California, 4; convention and should be approved Colorado, 4; Connecticut, 3; Florida, Your Editor would like to take this by the local Department which spon­ 7; Georgia, 2; Illinois, 9; Indiana, 4; opportunity to express his deep-felt sors the chapter. What a pleasure it Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 4; Louisiana, 2; appreciation to Professor Thomas T. would be for the Committee on Time Massachusetts, 6; Michigan, 5; Minne­ Boswell of Gamma Tau Chapter at and Place to be able to make a selec­ sota, 2; Mississippi, 2; Missouri, 4; Ne­ Mississippi College for performing the tion among several invitations. braska, 1; New Hampshire, 2; New duties of the Executive Secretary and Chapters which can not be j-epre- Jersey, 5; New York, 10; Ohio, 9; Okla­ Editor in such an excellent manner sented at the National Convention, and homa, 2; Pennsylvania, 5; Rhode Is­ during his absence. It is very difficult frequently a chapter may find it finan­ land, 3; Tennessee, 4; Texas, 6; Vir­ to assume another's work without any cially impossible, are instructed to no­ ginia, 2; Washington, 1; West Virginia, instruction or experience but Professor tify the Megas Grammateus of its in­ 6; Wisconsin, 5; Canada, 2. You will Boswell did this very willingly and ability to send representatives and sub­ observe that some of our states which carried on the work of the National mit an annual report. Also delegates have no chapters of Eta Sigma Phi Office without any hiatus or errors. are expected to bring a prepared re­ award medals in more schools than The entire Fraternity owes Mm a deep port of the activities of their chapters states in which we have chapters. Does debt of gratitude and surely it will ex­ to be read at the first session. Maybe your chapter award the medals and press its appreciation to him for his we shall have 100% of the chapters does it try to interest teachers in the dedicated service to all of the members. reporting this year. state in awarding the medals? Personally your Editor says to him Tibi quam maximas gratias ago. Chapters failed to support Professor The Endowment Fund appears to Boswell by failing to return the Ques­ have received no contributions during tionnaire which is requested not later my absence. This is a great disappoint­ Many years the Committee on Time than October 31 of each year, but some ment. and Place at the National Convention also fail to support me in this year The finances of the Fraternity are must go about among the delegates and after year. I think that it is only in good condition but we are now op­ ask if some chapter will entertain the proper to tell you that the following erating on a very close margin. This next Convention. Certainly several of chapters have not submitted the Ques­ will be discussed more fully at the the sixty-six chapters would like to be tionnaire this year and if they are two convention in Baltimore but the chief host to the Convention but they fail to years in arrears, this is noted: Beta reason why we are sometimes forced submit a formal invitation. Invitations (two years), Epsilon, Psi, Alpha Nu, to be satisfied with a very small bal­ to entertain the National Convention Alpha Omicron, Alpha Phi, Alpha ance is that the chapters ferquently do should be submitted to the Megas Psi, Beta Iota, Beta Mu, Beta Rho, Grammateus or the Executive Secretary Beta Chi, Gamma Epsilon, Gamma (Continued On Page 21) NUNTIUS 21

The following article, copied from THE MUHLENBERG WEEKLY, Vol­ Modern man has turned his back ume 83, November 1, 1962, pages 3f, was written by Mr. Robert Karl Bohm, on values and prefers to move in the Prytanis of Alpha Rho Chapter, Eta Sigma Phi, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, realm of the concrete, the material. He Pennsylvania, in reply to the account of a curriculum study, published the week needs to orient himself, to find out before, which proposed that the Department of Classical Languages be retired whence he came and for what purpose concommitant with the retirement of the present head of that department, a and then where it is best to go. Values study based entirely on financial consideration. Mr. Bohm has given his kind are needed to override the concrete, to permission for us to reprint the article in NUNTIUS. He also informs us that give it a function in a meaningful con­ the proposal may not even come to a vote now and we like to feel that this is so text. The study of the history, philos­ because one of our members rose to the challenger and defended the Classics so ophy, and literature of the past teaches ably. Eta Sigma Phi owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Bohm for his virtus on this values, what is to be chosen and why, occasswn. what is to be rejected and why. Yet what need for the original tongues? Study of Antiquity Proven Basic Practicality to Modern Education Study of the languages of the past by Robert Karl Bohm sharpens thinking ability more than study of a modern tongue because of Surely no one gave second consideration to a passage in the curriculum the difference in form. No one who article published last week which pointed out the decline in the size of the classi­ has really encountered Greek or Latin cal language department over the past thirty years or the abolition of required can escape involvement with its tight­ Greek and Latin. Nor would anyone feel in the least uncomfortable if at some ness of expression, its precision of future date he heard that the trend had gone to its obvious conclusion and there phrasing, its interplay of subordination no longer was a department of classical languages. and correlation, all of which contribute What bearing on modern life could Easier Method to far greater fluency of thought. One these antiquities have? Today's atmos- Certainly the literature is beautiful, who has learned to think in those for­ phere cannot support the studies of The discovery of the personality of mal tongues can think with more clar­ Greek and Latin, for our age is prac­ Cicero, the pompous orator who never­ ity, organization, and precision. tical. What place would these studies theless loved a good joke, is still a joy. Finally, how much better we can have in preparation for earning a liv­ The lyric beauty of Catullus' delicate appreciate and understand the ancient ing? Modern man is progressive, with sympathy for his lover, Martial's abil­ world, its philosophy and history from his eye set to the future, not to the ity to make mincemeat of a person in which we have so much to learn, if unenlightened past. Languages which but two lines of satiric verse, Virgil's we can hear the masters speak in their are dead should be buried. sweep and grandeur in his relation of own tongues with all their peculiarities the fated founding of the City, all still that make both them and their ideas move a reader. Nor can we understand more vital and meaningful to us. In­ Overlapping many things in more modern literature carnation is the way to knowledge, without a knowledge of the treasury whether of the Unknown in human Indeed the history of the ancient of classical allusions. flesh or of thoughts in their contem­ world is pertinent and relevant today, Yet cannot the English department porary tongue. for it is our history. Can we under­ teach us ancient literature; what need No one will suddenly be interested stand our present without the knowl­ of Greek and Latin? They can explain edge of the past? Toynbee decided to in taking Greek or Latin; our age is the obscure names in Yeats or Eliot, not geared for it and to force it would write Study of History while reading the form of Paradise Lost. And, as in Thucydides and realizing that those be a foolish inadrriission to see how the world literature course now offered, things really are. Yet we can see that problems of ancient Greece were very they can show us in translation the analogous to his own world. The con­ things might be better, and we can beauty of ancient literature. For are feel a joy when actual conditions ap­ cept of "freedom" is meaningless with­ words so precise, so unique in their out an understanding of its tortuous proach the better possibilities. And personalities, that they carry overtones we could feel a sense of loss when the birth whose labor pains began in an­ that cannot be translated? Do the tiquity. Yet we can learn all this in department of classical languages is grammatical differences matter, so inevitably retired. our history class, what need of Greek changed from modern languages and and Latin? allowing a greater freedom from strict order and thus more poignant phras­ Roots of all Western philosophy, From Your Editor — Continued moreover, are set in ancient Greek soil. ing? Any real student of a foreign There can be no complete knowledge language knows the answer. not send in initiation fees on time. of philosophy where there is neither Values When a member has been initiated an appreciation of the problems posed Of course a true study of the litera­ and has paid his fee, he is entitled to by the ancients and echoing to our ture of antiquity necessitates courses receive his membership card, member­ own day nor an awareness of the in Greek or Latin. For the form of ship certificate, and his copies of classic methodology, the reliance on those languages is so different from NUNTIUS as soon as possible but he principles, which has tempered all our modern French, German, Spanish, or can receive no one of these until the philosophic thought. Yet can't our English that any real, meaningful National Office has been notified and philosophy department teach us that translation is impossible. But this mat­ has received the fees. There are times all western philosophy is but a com­ ters little; few are really interested in when fees are received for people who mentary on Plato and Aristotle; what literature, and those who are can find have been initiated as much as a year need of Greek or Latin? fields other than Greek and Latin. ago! 22 NUNTIUS

sity. Mr. Jim Curry, an Academy fel­ level toward the tholos shrine at the ROME, 1962 low, assisted him in our study of the top (not restored). It was therefore Ray F. Mitchell sites. Four days per week consisted appropriate that Mr. Curry should de­ of morning study of one or more sites cide that we would start climbing from (Mr. Mitchell, our Eta Sigma Phi in Rome, followed by a delightful the bottom. But Fortuna knew we were Scholar to Rome last summer, is now lunch in the Academy cortile and an coming, for she had asked Apollo to Head of the Latin Department at St. afternoon lecture on the works of Livy, hide behind the clouds that day. A Thomas' Episcopal School at Houston, Horace or Vergil. Each Wednesday we museum has been installed in the up­ Texas. This school, now including stu­ ventured outside the city to one or per semicircular level. The splendid dents from kindergarten through the more ancient sites. These longer trips Barberini mosaic, showing life along ninth grade, was begun about five were particularly helpful in allowing the length of the Nile, is housed in a years ago with the express purpose of us not only to inspect some of the special room here. This alone is well giving a high quality education, minus more noteworthy sites in Latium, but worth the trip. most of the frills, but firmly based on also to gain a more accurate and or­ The lectures we received on Horace's Christian standards. Latin has since derly picture of Rome as the great odes anticipated our enjoyment of the the founding of the school been started capital, whose fortunes were not sep­ serenity of the Sabine countryside. Al­ in grade five, and continues through arated from those of its neighbors. though only the foundation of the grade nine. Mr. Mitchell hopes to ar­ Ostia, perhaps the most impressive house remains, it is easy to understand range a special class in Greek for the why he so delighted in his retreats better students beginning next year, of these sites, was visited first, with the result that we were rather over­ there. Perhaps he would have enjoyed and this awaits only the mechanics of sharing our simple lunch as much as scheduling. The suggestion was made whelmed by its extent and its role in the Roman world. During our two we enjoyed recalling his love for the not by Mr. Mitchell but by the rector simplicity of life in the country. We in charge of the school. Mr. Mitchell visits there, under the enthusiastic leadership of Professor Henry Rowell, had no sweet Falernian wine that day, says: "My experience so far with the but we did drink of his beloved Fons fifth grade is that they are refreshingly we obtained a good knowledge of the city plan and the role of this bustling Bandusiae. eager, but that much drill must be These four sites I have mentioned done and at a moderate pace. I do city in the area of Rome. We watched scores of shops fill with merchandise have, along with the others, given me some simple Latin conversation from a better conception of Rome itself. time to time and intend to increase and homes brighten with family life as Professor Rowell brought vitality to From our study of Ostia we learned gradually. I was not taught this way how important that city was to Rome's myself, but I am convinced now that these all-too-similar rooms, often work­ ing on clues which may not have been economy. The tombs at Cerveteri re­ its value is tremendous. My answer to mind us of the Etruscan influence on persons who say that nobody talks in obvious to us. Remains were carefully pointed out which shed light on Ostia's the early Roman belief in an after­ Latin ahy more is that students who life. At Palestrina we see the power learn to buy a hat in French or a beer religious and political life. In my opin­ ion, the most interesting structure was of Sulla used to rebuild a temple to in German are wasting their time if Fortuna, even if he might have con­ that is the end of their having conver­ the theatre, still used during the sum­ mer. It was my pleasure to return sidered worship of the goddess an opi­ sation in a foreign language. Conver­ ate for the people. And at Horace's sation is a means to understanding the there for a production of Euripides' Medea, given by a Greek company. farm we sense relief from the pressures structure of the language and to be of the city. able to do a little abstract thinking At Cerveteri, or ancient Caere, the rather than translate alone. A firm As I turn to Rome itself, I shall try Etruscan necropolis, we intruded upon to convey more general impressions. conviction of our administration—and the eternal abodes of the departed as one which I share of course—is that One of the greatest benefits I received we listened to our Italian guide extrol from studying in Rome was simply the language must include a rigorous gram­ in his musical voice appropriate facts matical approach.") opportunity to piece together a picture and figures. At times he even set aside of the size and appearance of the an­ My experiences in Rome the past his native impetuousness to permit Dr. cient city. When reading and studying summer have benefitted me so signifi­ Bovie to speak! We were all impressed in this country, we must remove our­ cantly that I doubt that the full range by the meticulous care taken by the selves not only in time but also in of their meaning for me can be ade­ Etruscans to make these tombs re­ space. When in Rome, our presence at quately expressed at any one time. I semble the deceased's home in life. The the sites eliminates many aspects of the shall always be deeply appreciative of warrior's armour and the housewife's latter difficulty and makes the differ­ the assistance given me by Eta Sigma cooking equipment were represented ence of centuries seem of little conse­ Phi. with equal faithfulness. Although the quence. When we see the rostrum in deep ruts worn in the roads by the the forum, e.g., it takes little imagina­ In this report, which I presented ancient "hearses" remind us of our earlier at the fall meeting of CAMWS, tion to put ourselves in the place of an own similar and inescapable trek, we impassioned orator pleading an un­ I have used specific experiences to illus­ would do well to have as elaborate a trate what the summer has meant to popular cause, fully cognizant of the resting place as many of those at influence represented by the Curia on me. It allowed me to renew my love Cerveteri. for the fair Roma. I was bewitched by his left, the Regia ahead, or official Diana's abode at Lake Nemi, bewild­ The modern Palestrina, or ancient homes on the Palatine off to the right. ered by Fortuna's magnificent temple Praeneste, boasts one of the most ex­ It is one thing to read about the pala­ at Palestrina, but bothered only by the travagant sites we visited: the temple estrae in the public baths, and quite swift passing of the six weeks at the of Fortuna, towering up the side of a another to stand quietly in a great American Academy. steep hill some twenty miles east of palaestra in the Baths of Caracalla, This session was directed by Profes­ Rome. The dominant lines of the and to see the exedra from which spec­ sor Palmer Bovie of Rutgers Univer­ temple lead the eyes upward level-by- tators could watch the activities there. NUNTIUS 23

Although it is interesting to me as a tion of the old with the new was seen I arrived in Rome as wide-eyed as student of the Roman civilization to in the small stretch of the Servian the ancient provincial must have been have seen Rome firsthand, the value Wall beside the modern Termini sta­ when he came to visit the great capi­ which this has for me as a teacher of tion. tal. We learned many statistics about Latin is almost too great to imagine. It was of course to my advantage to the ancient sites. We marvelled at the There are so many questions which my have seen with my own eyes the re­ travertine, tufa, marble and brick. We ninth-graders — or even the fifth- mains of the so-called hut of Romulus yearned to touch museum artifacts. We graders ask, many of which I could 6n the Palatine—as well as the more searched in the field; researched in the answer only from having seen the elegant "hut" of Hadrian outside the library. The result has been for me ruins. city, or the underground rooms of the a more vital experience with the very Although we as classicists may regret Domus Aurea, or the Apollo of Veii spirit of ancient Rome. that subsequent construction has re­ now in the Villa Giulia Museum. Ma­ In southern style, I say again, moved forever much of antiquity, it is terials, techniques, settings beckon us "Vobis-omnibus gratias ago!" interesting to note how the ancient to hours and weeks of profitable study; and the not-so-ancient exist together, but no temple, theatre or art form ex­ Professor Boswell To often in ways which are quite pleasant. ists without a purpose which reflects I think especially of the splendid foun­ the ideals, aspirations and prejudices of Conduct European Tour tain of the Naiads in the Piazza della its maker, or indeed of the society. We Republica, situated in the center of can read, e.g., about the massive pro­ Professor Thomas T. Boswell will the exedra of the Baths of Diocletian. portions and architectural wonders of be the conductor of a tour of Europe The shape of the Piazza Navona out­ the Colosseum, but there is an over­ in the summer of 1963. The tour will lines the stadium of Domitian and powering feeling which one has when visit England, France, Italy, Switzer­ reminds us, as we watch the leisurely standing inside it in the evening. The land, Germany, Holland, and Belgium gatherings there in evening, that in its "illumination" is not only that of can- between July 18 and September 5. ancient form this was a public place. dlepower, but also a meaningful per­ More time will be spent in Italy than The use of the Basilica of Maxentius sonal communion or interpretation. in any other one country and a great as,a setting for summer concerts sug­ We imagine the excitement, the blood­ amount of attention will be given to gested to me that its soaring arches shed, the leisure hours, the jaded Rome. If any of the members of Eta and ageless majesty found counterparts tastes, the passing of it all. Nero's lake Sigma Phi are interested in the tour, in the transcendency of the musical was drained; the Colosseum drained Professor Boswell will be pleased to medium. One very striking juxtaposi­ much more. correspond with them.

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