November 5, 2011
-
The incipit of a piece in the Bradenton Herald: What the heck is “vomitory seating”? That’s a question readers had after seeing the Bradenton Herald’s Oct. 18 story about future renovations at McKechnie Field. It contained a Fawley/Bryant architectural rendering that included the term vomitory seating. “Will someone please tell me what that is?” John…
-
Anne Sheppard has posted to the Classicists list: It has now been decided that no reduction in staff numbers in Classics at Royal Holloway will take place until the end of the academic year 2013-14. Moreover if we recruit good numbers of students with AAB or above at A-level for 2012 and our plans to…
-
From the Winston-Salem Journal: Allen Mandelbaum May 4, 1926 – October 27, 2011 Allen Mandelbaum left this earthly light for the Bright Light on Thursday, October 27, 2011. Born in Albany, New York on May 4, 1926, he left that city at the age of one and was raised in Louisville (Kentucky), Toronto (Canada), Troy…
-
The Classical blogosphere (or at least some blogs on the periphery of it) is all agog because Rush Limbaugh has gone on a rant about Classical studies and everyone seems to be taking it personally and/or as a chance to bash Rush Limbaugh. Full disclosure: years ago I used to listen to Rush regularly but…
rogue classicism 