[lit-ideas] Re: xxSPAMxx "The Great Go" (Is: Literæ Humaniores: The Secret History, anyone?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:40:36 -0330
Quoting Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx:
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> Oddly (and nicely so) Grice never taught _those_ courses, but at most was a
>
> _tutorial_ fellow with St. John's, or a _university lecturer_.
Grice never visited St. John's. Or any other city in Newfoundland, as far as I
know.
Walter Okshevsky
In the east end of St. John's
Newfoundland and Labrador
>
> And I have a query: Since attendance to, say, talks by the Waynflete prof.
> of metaphysical philosophy are NOT mandatory, what would ****YOU***** do if
> you
> find yourself being the prof. there -- on, say, a Wednesday morning at 8:00
>
> am, and NO STUDENT to talk to? Would you leave (and call it a day)? What's
> the procedure?
>
> (I remember that on more than one occasion I was the ONLY Student for the
> Lectures on Mediaeval Philosophy and now that I think of it, I would think
> the
> professor would rather go home rather than lecture on Saint Bonaventura just
>
> for me!)
>
> I'm not sure about the university lecturers. From the readings of Grice's
> and Warnock's joint lecturers, I would think that they wouldn't care if there
>
> were students or not.
>
> I was told that when Grice delivered the John Locke Lectures at Merton the
> hall wasn't precisely _crowded_ either.
>
> Cheers,
>
> J. L.
>
> --- graduate from the "Faculty of Philosophy and ***Letters*** [Letras] ",
> University of Buenos Aires.
>
>
>
>
> LITERAE HUMANIORES [L., literally, â??more humane LETTERSâ??.] The
> humanities, secular learning as opposed to divinity; esp., at the University
> of Oxford,
> the study of Greek and Roman [never Latin, which sounds "Caribean" -- JLS]
> *classical* LITERrature, [all, not just classical] philosophy, and *ancient*
>
> history; also, = Greats (C.10).
>
> 1747 CHESTERFIELD Let. 24 Nov. (1932) III. 1057
> Studies of the Literæ Humaniores, especially Greek.
>
> 1760 STERNE Tr. Shandy (ed. 3) II. xii. 61,
> I would not depreciate what the study of the Literæ humaniores, at the
> university, have done for me.
>
> 1883 Sat. Rev. 3 Nov. 581/2
> We cannot conceive a better accompaniment to the study of literæ
> humaniores.
>
> [than ...? The Yellow Book?]
>
> 1907 â??B. BURKEâ?? Barbara [Allen?] goes to Oxford 43
>
> â??Greatsâ??, you must know, is a nickname for the school of â??Literae
> Humaniores
> â??.
>
> 1911 BEERBOHM Zuleika D. iii. 30
> He..was reading, a little, for Literae Humaniores.
>
> 1926 FOWLER Mod. Eng. Usage 240/2
> The Humanities, or Litteræ humaniores, as an old-fashioned name for the
> study of classical literature [and philosophy, hey! JLS]
>
> 1962 K. CHORLEY Arthur Hugh Clough iv. 72
> In Clough's day there were but two schools open to men reading for In
> Clounamely, Mathematics and Literae Humaniores.
>
> 1965 J. A. W. BENNETT in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 48
> But litterae humaniores were his foundation, and they did in every sense
> make him more humane, enlarging his responses not restricting them.
>
> 1972 Univ. Oxf. Examination Decrees I. 120
> The Subjects of the Honour School of Literæ Humaniores shall be
> (I) Greek and Roman History,
> (II) Philosophy, [GRICE CHOSE THIS -- general philosophy, not just classic]
> (III) Greek and Latin Literature.
>
> ----
>
> greats (Oxford Univ. colloq.).
> The final examination for the degree of B.A.; now applied esp. to the
> examination for Honours in Literæ Humaniores. The earlier name was GREAT
> GO. (Cf.
> smalls.)
>
> Univ. slang. The final examination for the degree of B.A. (At Oxford now
> called greats.) (Cf. little go.)
>
> 1820 Gentl. Mag. XC. I. 32
> At present the examination [at the University of Oxford] is divided into a
> Little-go and a Great-go.
>
> 1825 C. M. WESTMACOTT Eng. Spy I. 137
> An examination that would far exceed the perils of the great go. Ibid. 141
> When he enters upon life, action, or profession, both the little go, and the
>
> great go, he will find to be a by go; for he will find that he has gone by
> the
> best part of useful and substantial learning; or that it has gone by him.
>
> 1841 THACKERAY K. of Brentford vii, His little go and great go He
> creditably pass'd.
>
> 1876 â??P. PYPERâ?? Mr. Gray & Neighb. I. 74
> Young Mr. Applebee had managed to pass his â??great goâ?? at Oxford, just
> about
> the time the living fell vacant.
>
>
> 1853 â??C. BEDEâ?? Verdant Green II. xi,
> The little gentleman was going in for his Degree, alias Great-go, alias
> Greats.
>
> 1861 HUGHES Tom Brown at Oxf. I. x. 163
> In our second term we..begin to feel ourselves at home, while both
> â??smallsâ??
> and â??greatsâ?? are sufficiently distant to be altogether ignored if we are
>
> that way inclined.
>
> 1884 G. ALLEN Strange Stories 175 Since I have begun reading philosophy for
>
> my Greats.
>
> 1897 Westm. Gaz. 12 June 1/3
> There are..more entries for Modern History than for Classical Greats.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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