The Hillsdale Classics Department recently held a lecture, titled “Love in the Aeneid,” to commemorate Grace West, a Hillsdale classics professor who died in May. The lecture was held as a kind of memorial, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Carl Young, who organized the event, explained how the idea came to be. “It was...
Two new clubs on campus are now eligible for funding from the Student Federation. At their Oct. 17 meeting, the federation granted initial club status to the real estate club and the applied mathematics club. Club president Sam Ziolkowski presented the real estate club’s proposal. “Our mission is to provide exposure to commercial real estate...
Classical education no longer exists, according to Erik Ellis, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame. In his Monday night lecture titled “Vir Bonus, Dicendi Peritus: Statesmanship and Public Speaking as the Final Cause of Classical Education,” Ellis described both the essence and purpose of a true classical education. According to Ellis, people...
The power in the City of Hillsdale went down for about 24 minutes Wednesday afternoon. Due to wind, the top of an oak tree fell on one of the main transmission lines that feeds into the city, according to Board of Public Utilities Director Chris McArthur. The line was hit near Wildlife Drive, just off...
Paul Rahe, professor of history, will receive an award on Friday for his newest book on ancient Sparta and its defense strategies. At a conference in Washington, D.C., the Mackinder Forum, an association of foreign policy scholars, will present Rahe with the 2019 STRATFOR Book Award for Geopolitical Analysis for his recent book “Sparta’s First...