Thursday, September 04, 2008

Hidden Treasure

One of my colleagues retired this past spring, and gave me a bunch of books, including a number of books I could pass along to my students. So yesterday I passed them along.

And as I was doing so, I happened to see a paper in one, folded over, actually several papers, a mimeographed syllabus from a class on an author that I've not read (or if I have, I don't remember). And yet, this looks like a whole undergrad class focused on, yes, Gower.

2 comments:

  1. Wow. Is there a date on it? That's terrific, and amazing. . . so much of the history of education gets lost when folks throw out old syllabi (never mind now, when it's all electronic.)

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  2. Oh that is so funny! No wonder Gower is always on the GRE subject test. I mean, I've read some Gower, but a *whole* *class* on him? Hm, I think I only know one scholar today who could pull that off and I don't think even he would do it at the undergrad level.

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