Category Archives: Nugae

Four of the six seniors and two of the three qual-writing juniors out for gelato to kick off spring break! (Pinolo Gelato on Division)

Beth Platte, the Instructional Technologist for Foreign Languages, informed me of this incredible feat of Latin. It’s medieval, but I couldn’t help but share. The following is the first four lines from the Ecloga de Calvis (“In Praise of Bald Men”), a ca. … finish reading In Praise of Bald Men (Ecloga de Calvis)

I pulled off my shelf an old student edition of Cicero’s Letters to find some sight-reading for Latin 210, and I discovered that my book has a pretty cool provenance: There are lots of penciled notes–whether these are of Scullard … finish reading Is it a forgery?

It’s pretty neat to come to work and see this: Just another day on ETC 2!

I think the headline says it all: This guy just won University Challenge with ‘Hapax legomenon’  

Two of the professors have back-to-back birthdays. One of our students made us cupcakes. Mine is pictured below with Prof. Wasserstrom’s dog in the background.