Edward Kennard Rand

Includes section "Reviews."

Accompanied by: Virgil's home / Kenneth Wellesley (reprint from ? p. -350.).

The Aristotelian Society of Marquette University each year invites a scholar to speak on the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Those lectures have come to be called the Aquinas Lectures and are customarily delivered on the Sunday nearest March 7, the feast day of the Society's patron saint. For the year 1945, the Society has the pleasure of publishing the lecture by Edward Kennard Rand, Pope Professor of Latin emeritus, Harvard University.

"The chapters of this book were delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston in January and February, 1928."-Pref. "List of books": p. -286. The church and pagan culture: the problem; the solution.--St. Ambrose, the mystic.--St. Jerome the humanist.--Boethius, the first of the scholastics.--The new poetry.--The new education.--St. Augustine and Dante.