Benefits of a Classical Education

[John Greer]

a suitable graffito for your local Classics dept.:

GEORGIVS FRVTEX EX HONORE EICIENDVS EST

(The marvelous thing is that _frutex_, Latin for "shrub" or "bush",
is also an insult meaning, roughly, "blockhead." In Latino veritas...)

[Hugh Miller]

You might have heard the story John Kenneth Galbraith told on the
1988 Bush campaign.
It seems that at some point in the campaign his handlers decided
that it was time to give ol' Jargon Breath a `higher intellectual
profile.' So his speechwriters (presumably on loan from George Will's
scriptorium) came up with a speech containing a quote from Thucydides'
_The Peloponnesian Wars_.
Comes the day of the speech, tho', and ol' George can't pronounce
`Thucydides'.
So they left the quote in but changed the attribution to `Plato,'
and George did just fine the next time.
Benefits of a Yale education.

-=- H.
Yale '77 (Davenport College)
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Hugh Miller | Dept. of Philosophy | Loyola University of Chicago
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