Category Archives: Sewanee

Little mysteries in an old edition of Cicero

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

See this update How this book came into my possession, I really can’t say, but it’s probably the oldest one I own, a copy of select orations of Cicero (together with Asconius’ commentary) as well as De Senectute and De … Continue reading →

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“New Greeks at Old Sewanee” (TIME Nov. 9, 1962)

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Time’s piece on a joint Classics-Phys Ed class from November, 9, 1962 (pp. 55-56)

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Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes: Prefatory Remarks for the Alderson-Tillinghast Inaugural Lecture

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Many thanks to all of you for being here today, a day I have long been awaiting, because it is the day when I finally get to express my deep gratitude to the University and its benefactors, and particularly to … Continue reading →

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The Backstory to the SAS Reredos

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Earlier this year, I wondered about the reredos in the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee school chapel, discovering that it was a copy of the Demidoff Altarpiece, now in National Gallery, London, but originally made by Carlo Crivelli for the church of San Domenico in … Continue reading →

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This is the last

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

“It is very happily and kindly provided,” writes Dr. Johnson, “that in every life there are certain pauses and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light; points of time where one course of action ends … Continue reading →

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Protected: Career of Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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Sewanee Memoire: Projections for the Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Below are remarks I gave for a forum organized by Prof. Woody Register and the Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation on about Art, Commemoration, and Sewanee’s Campus, held at Otey Parish on February 19, 2017. Also on the panel … Continue reading →

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Protected: The very bottle …

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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Head-copping

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

An evening or two ago, I stopped into Mooney’s, the great little local market just on the border between Sewanee and Monteagle, to pick up some garlic powder. I had paid for it, when it occurred to me that I … Continue reading →

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Protected: You have heard of Gettysburg, but does it haunt you?

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

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