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Yield who will to their separation, my object in living is to unite

my avocation and my vocation as my two eyes make one in sight.

Only where love and need are one, and the work is played for mortal stakes,

Is the deed ever really done for Heaven and the future's sakes.                                                                --Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time

 

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.

It has to face the men of the time and to meet

The women of the time. It has to think about war

And it has to find what will suffice. It has

To construct a new stage...

                                        --Wallace Stevens, Of Modern Poetry

 

The main justification for a university campus in an age of telecommunications and multimedia technology is the occasion it provides for .. the exchange of words among a community of learners and the development of a personal relationship between the teacher and the student.... a virtual university that trafficks in what Socrates calls the "shadow" of animate speech may produce information, mnemonics and compliance, but not the knowledge, memory and commitment that blossom in the gardens of a real Academy. --Robert Pogue Harrison

 

Give more to the soil than you take away. --Capek, A Gardener's Year

 

60th birthday poems (for Barbara and Michael)

Pierre Hadot, The Present Alone is our Happiness


UNCW CLASSES                         Quote/discussions


        PAR 2008-2009 EVENTS

                              Dr. Philip Kitcher  "Religion After Darwin"

               THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2008   7:30 P.M. – Burney Center

      Dr. Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and an internationally famous philosopher of science, will be speaking on the impact of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution on religion. This event was CANCELLED DUE TO THE STATE BUDGET FREEZE ORDERED BY GOVERNOR PURDUE. THE DEPARTMENT HAS SUBSEQUENTLY BEEN TOLD THE B. FRANK HALL LECTURE SERIES, WHICH HAS EXISTED FOR OVER 20 YEARS, MAY NOT BE FUNDED IN THE FUTURE.


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Elgin collection, taken from the Parthenon


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