A lecture finished in one minute! This is astounding progress (“These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds,” The Chronicle, March 6). Let’s go further. Since research shows that the average retention rate ...

What: Lecture: Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation ...

Matthew Meselson anticipated a lecture that night in 1954 when he heard Linus Pauling's slippety-slap footfall outside the lab. Meselson, then a graduate student in Pauling's lab at Caltech, had ...

Socrates was born near Athens but very little is known of his early life. He served in battle as a soldier and showed great bravery. On one occasion he saved the life of Alcibiades, a brilliant but ...

Professor Goodwin will give the second of the course of lectures on Greek Philosophy in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 8 o'clock this evening. His subject will be "Socrates and the ...

Please join us for a lecture and Q&A with Roosevelt Montás, Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. Montás holds an A.B. (1995), an M.A. (1996), and a Ph.D. (2004) in ...