Returning team Platypus Deniability poses for a photo at Pennsylvania State University. Courtesy | Chloe Noller They’re so back — Hillsdale College Mock Trial just roared into the pre-seasons at their first invitational tournament of the year. Two Hillsdale teams competed last weekend at Pennsylvania State University. Platypus Deniability, a returning team of veterans from...
Imagine a Hillsdale that taught the “Aeneid” without training students in Latin, or read the “Iliad” but didn’t encourage the study of Greek, or assigned short stories from Jorge Louis Borges but never led students to delve deeper into the study of Spanish. Now remember that Hillsdale students will often study the works of Dante,...
They’re singing arms and the man — no, seriously: singing — in a new musical rendition of Vergil’s “Aeneid” written in part by sophomore Nate Shackelford. Shackelford never thought that he would wind up writing an adaptation of one of the greatest epics ever penned for his senior musical because he wasn’t supposed to have another...
I guess I should open by saying I’m sorry — I really didn’t mean to do it. It’s me again, Joseph Oldsboy, and I done messed up pretty bad last week. You see, I’m always a regular attendee at swing; you can usually find me leaning against a pillar watching the dances and screwing my courage...
Joshua Benjamins is a 2015 graduate. Courtesy | Joshua Benjamin, LinkedIn Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Joshua Benjamins ’15 released a new 185-page translation of three of Peter Martyr Vermigli’s “Loci Communes” on Aug. 29. “To craft a rendering that is faithful to the author’s intention and grammar, while also being readily comprehensible and aesthetically...