January 23, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Relating to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is studied this semester by CC 202, is today’s analect: I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I […]
January 23, 2013 at 2:54 pm
The Core is offering 15 free tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestra performance on Thursday February 7th, at 8:00 PM, in the Boston Symphony Hall. From http://bit.ly/VWRVKL: The eminent German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi leads three masterpieces from the heart of the orchestral repertoire. The program begins with Brahms’s earliest orchestral masterpiece, his Variations on […]
Posted in Activities, Announcements, Core in the City, Events
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Tagged beethoven, brahms, city, event, fun, music, orchestra, sibelius, violin
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January 23, 2013 at 2:39 pm
From January 30 – July 7, 2013, the upcoming Festina Lente exhibition will offer an unconventional behind-the-scenes opportunity to survey the Greek and Roman holdings in the Davis Museum’s permanent collections. Featuring vases and vessels of all sorts and designs, relief portraits and standing figures, mosaics, coins and jewelry, human and animal forms, the scope of […]
Posted in Activities, Announcements, Art, Events
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Tagged Art, authenticity, event, exhibition, Greek, museum, preservation, restoration, roman, Science, upcoming
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January 22, 2013 at 12:58 pm
The Orientation office is now reviewing applications for Summer 2013 advisor positions. Freshmen (and higher) are eligible for FYSOP staff positions. Sophomores (and higher) are eligible for the position of Student Advisor. Serving on the Summer Orientation staff is a great way to talk about the unique Core style of learning to incoming students, and […]
January 17, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Language and Other Abstract Objects was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 1981. It discusses the ideas of Plato studied in CC101. Internalization and externalization also explain why, for Plato, poetry corrupts our psyches. Given our psychology, there are two features of poetry which make it an especially potent drug. First, the music and rhythms […]
Posted in Academics, Curriculum, Great Ideas, Great Questions
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Tagged boundary, CC101, expression, form, imagination, imitation, inside, outside, perform, Plato, poetry
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January 17, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Professor Knust held a lecture in September of 2011, of which the Core is belatedly releasing the concluding minutes. While it related to The Book of Genesis, which is studied in CC101, the Core feels that the questions raised here are important, and relevant to many other works. In the end, I’m not sure what […]
Posted in Academics, Community, Core Authors, Core Lecturers, Curriculum, Great Questions
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Tagged ancestors, creation, destruction, explanation, Genesis, God, Knust, lecture, question, reason, understand, why?
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January 17, 2013 at 3:48 pm
These are drawings by 19th century French artist Paul Gustave Doré, made for Paradise Lost. The first depicts Lucifer trying to hold on to Heaven before he is sent down to hell for inciting a war in the between the angels invariably causing the fall of man. The second shows Lucifer being cast out […]
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Tagged banishment, Dore, drawing, exile, lucifer, painting, Paradise Lost, Punishment, satan
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December 14, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Relating to the work of CC202 is the next analect, from Dostoyevsky: The candlestick had long since burned low in the twisted candlestick, dimly lighting the poverty-stricken room and murderer and the harlot who had come together so strangely to read the eternal book.
December 14, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Dedicated to all sleep-deprived Core students and faculty preparing their battlements for the approaching finals’ week, and relating to the work of CC201, here is today’s analect from Cervantes’ Don Quixote: All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man […]
