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Jalal ud-Din Rumi (1207 — 1273 CE), but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a 13th century Persian poet, jurist, theologian and teacher of Sufism.


Read The Masnavi I Ma'navi by Maulana Jalalu-'d-din Muhammad Rumi Abridged and Translated by E.H. Whinfield [1898], free from sacredtexts.com.

Robert Staughton Lynd was born on September 26, 1892, in New Albany, Indiana. He received his B.A. Degree from Princeton University and his Ph.D. Degree from Columbia University. From 1923 to 1926, he was employed at the Institute of Social and Religious Research. From 1926 - 1927, he was employed as an Associate Director of Educational Research for the Commonwealth Fund. Since 1931, he has been employed at the Social Service Research Council and as a Professor in the Graduate School of Political Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Robert Staughton Lynd married Helen Merrill on September 3, 1921. She was a Professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Lynd, along with his wife, Helen Merrill Lynd, wrote the book "Middletown." Ten years after the first book, they wrote another book titled "Middletown in Transition." In 1942, he was employed as a consultant by the Office for Emergency Management, Washington, D.C.


Robert & Helen Lynd

Lynd was investigated by the FBI for connections to the Communist Party. Click here to read his
FBI file.

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. He is regarded as one of America's most influential fiction writers.


Hear William Faulkner read from his story, "The Old Man," in RealAudio. For more format choices, and other audio of William Faulkner, "click here.

Euripides (c. 480–406 BCE) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles).

Read The Electra of Euripides, translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray, one of seven of Euripedes' works available free from Project Gutenberg.

Alexander III, 356–323 B.C., king of Macedon, conqueror of much of Asia. 1

Youth and Kingship
The son of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias, he had Aristotle as his tutor and was given a classical education. Alexander had no part in the murder of his father, although he may have resented him because he neglected Olympias for another wife. He succeeded to the throne in 336 B.C. and immediately showed his talent for leadership by quieting the restive cities of Greece, then putting down uprisings in Thrace and Illyria. Thebes revolted on a false rumor that Alexander was dead. The young king rushed south and sacked the city, sparing only the temples and Pindar’s house.

Read Plutarch's Life of Alexander, part of The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in the Loeb Classical Library, 1919, presented by LacusCurtius and the University of Chicago


Alexander Attacking Darius, from a mosaic in Pompeii.

As the last of the log cabin Presidents, James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the Presidency a measure of prestige it had lost during the Reconstruction period.

Read James A. Garfield's Inaugural Address, delivered March 4, 1881, free from bartleby.com


James Garfield

Mary Stewart (born 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, County Durham) is a popular English novelist, best known for her trilogy about Merlin, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre.

She is also the author of many mystery/romance novels, several of which have been adapted for television and/or film. Several of her books are set in Scotland; others are set in exotic locations such as Damascus, the Greek islands, Spain, France, Austria, etc.

Read an Interview with Mary Stewart by Raymond H. Thompson, free from the University of Rochester Library.


Mary Stewart

ACTIVITIES:
All girls seriously interested in trying out for soccer will need to attend an informational meting tomorrow at 3 pm sharp in the girl’s Locker Room. See Ms. Diaz for further questions.

A Little About Quintanilla (1893-1978)

Starting out as a Cubist under the influence of his friend, Juan Gris, Luis Quintanilla eventually became a prominent Spanish draftsman and muralist. Though he would have far preferred to be left alone to paint in peace without engaging in politics he was eventually drawn into the tumultuous affairs of his times. In 1931 he and Juan Negrin, the Premier of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War, put the flag of the Republic up on the Royal Palace in Madrid ensuring that the revolution which ousted the king would remain bloodless.

Learn more about Luis Quintanilla's art and life, free from lqart.org.


Luis Quintanilla in Hollywood, from www.lqart.org.

George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, conservative, American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.

Click here to see George Will discuss baseball and politics, via the Library of Congress' Bookfest series, in streaming video. (RealPlayer required)


George Will

Read Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, one of two of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat. He is often referred to as the Father of English Literature. Although he wrote many works he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. He is sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.


Geoffrey Chaucer

ACTIVITIES:
Interested in playing boy’s soccer this year for Logan? See Coach Sills in Room 73.

Girl’s tennis - there is still rom for Freshman to tryout, so stop by after school at the Logan Tennis Courts!

Bring your parents to Back to School Night Tuesday, September 12! Barbecue starts at 5:30, and classes begin at 6:10.

François Rabelais (ca. 1494 - April 9, 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer.

Read Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, free from Project Gutenberg.


François Rabelais

Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 BC-264 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus. He was the son of a (probably Phoenician) merchant and a student of Crates of Thebes, the most famous Cynic living at that time in Greece. Zeno was, himself, a merchant until the age of 42, when he started the Stoic school of philosophy. Named for his teaching platform, the stoa ("stoa" is Greek for "porch"), his teachings were the beginning of Stoicism. None of Zeno's works have survived, but his teachings have passed on, including his main concept that tranquility can best be reached through indifference to pleasure and pain.

Read about Zeno in Diogenes Laertius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, free from Fordham University.


Zeno of Citium

Alfred de Musset (December 11, 1810 – May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.

Read The Confession of a Child of the Century by Alfred Musset, one of three of his works, in French and English, available from Project Gutenberg


Alfred Louis Charles de Musset

Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau - January 5, 1970 in Göttingen) was a mathematician and physicist. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics and was one of the 11 signatories to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

Read Max Born's speech accepting the Nobel Prize in Physics, free from Nobelprize.org.


Max Born

Naguib Mahfouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist, perhaps the greatest Arabic novelist ever, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died Wednesday.

Read Naguib Mahfouz' Nobel Prize acceptance speech, free from the Cornell University Library.


Naguib Mahfouz