Tarnish\u27d with Ashes and Soot: A Classic Poem’s Dank Corners

The legend is striking: Clement Clarke Moore, sitting with his children on a Christmas Eve in 1822, reading them a poem he has scrawled out that day, inspired by a winter shopping trip. Little Charity and Mary were likely entranced at six and three. Clement, a one-year-old, and Emily, a newborn, likely weren’t as enrapt by the lilting rhymes. The poem for Moore’s children found new life a year later, published in a Troy, New York newspaper. And since then, A Visit From Saint Nicholas has been embedded in our culture. [excerpt

Regal, Resonant, Resplendent

Regal. Resonant. Resplendent. Those are just three words used to describe the Alice Clement Memorial Organ in Ice Auditorium

Graduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 17, 1985

W. Clement Stone, founder, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Combined International Corporation and Combined Insurance Company of America, delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree, Doctor of Science in Business Administration

Sumptuary guidelines in Clement of Alexandria\u27s Paedagogus and Seneca\u27s Epistulae morales

This thesis, Sumptuary Guidelines in Clement of Alexandria\u27s Paedagogus and Seneca\u27s Epistulae Morales, explores the similarities between the ethical outlooks of Clement of Alexandria and Seneca, as well as peculiar emphases of each writer. The thesis is introduced with a discussion of the Christian search for identity within the Roman world, and the influence of Stoicism in formulating this identity. The next two chapters provide the social and intellectual context within which Clement and Seneca respectively wrote. In establishing Clement\u27s backdrop, the cultural, intellectual, and economic settings of Alexandria are examined. The argument is put forth that these various settings all had an impact on Clement\u27s ethical outlook. Following this, certain of Clement\u27s theological and philosophical viewpoints are discussed which bear upon his ethical guidelines. The portrayal of Seneca\u27s background naturally focuses on Rome. Treated are the sumptuary philosophers whom he encountered in the great city, as well as the prominent place of Stoicism there. Personal elements of Seneca\u27s life, as well as the social circles within which he moved, are also examined. The actual comparison between the ethical guidelines of Clement and Seneca is taken up next. The discussion of this chapter is limited to the topics of drinking and eating as treated by each writer. The respective treatments of these topics by Clement and Seneca vividly display their common ethical motto of moderate participation in the physical world, while also revealing concerns unique to each writer. The concluding chapter makes brief references to the ethical treatment of other areas by Clement and Seneca

Johnston, Annie Fellows, 1863-1931 (SC 2163)

Finding aid and full text of letters (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2163. Letters of Annie Fellows Johnston to Ruth Clement in Tokyo, Japan. Johnston responds to Clement\u27s praise of The Little Colonel and her gift of a Japanese book, and sends Clement a copy of her story The Three Weavers

Medically Modified Eyes: A Baptismal Cataract Surgery in Clement of Alexandria

In Paedagogus 1.6.28, Clement describes baptism through the metaphor of a cataract surgery that enables the percipient to see God. In antiquity, cataract surgery was neither a common nor a safe procedure, which raises the question: why does Clement use such an unlikely metaphor for baptism? In this article, I demonstrate that this medical metaphor of cataract surgery enabled Clement to blur the line between the physical and the spiritual. The visual component of the metaphor allowed Clement to draw from Epicurean sensory perception and epistemology, which understood objects to emit tiny films that entered the eye of the body, with repeated contact leading to concept formation, in order to describe how the eye of the soul could see God once it has been transformed through baptism. For Clement, it is only through baptism that the cataract can be removed, thereby providing the baptized Christian with deified eyes to see God. In addition to having her cataract removed, according to Clement, the nature of the baptized Christian\u27s vision changes from intromission to extramission, from receiving films to emitting a visual ray back to the divine. I further argue that the medical component of the metaphor allows Clement to describe the baptized Christian as fundamentally different from the rest of humanity and as part of an elite group that has undergone this uncommon and dangerous cataract surgery. Through these two aspects of his metaphor, Clement describes and defines Christians in terms of their medically modified eyes that enable them to see and to know God

Pope Clement VI : attempts to resurrect the papal monarchy.

The papacy of Clement VI (1342-1352) was distinguished by its political activism, its attempt to resurrect the impetus for crusading, and its efforts to attract the best and brightest talents to Avignon. The attributes which characterize his pontificate highlight his interest in resurrecting the papal monarchy. His political conservatism was manifested most vividly in his struggles with the German emperors Louis IV and Charles IV. Clement VI asserted that papal auctoritas superseded temporal imperium. Canonistic and publicists arguments were alloyed with Clement\u27s own unique views to stem the loss of the papacy\u27s secular power. Clement VI\u27s political dynamism was also displayed in renewed efforts to create an expeditionary force to wage a holy war against the Muslims. His Smyrna Crusade and Holy League achieved the last resurgence of western Christian influence in the Levant in the Middle Ages. Finally, the intellectual legacy of Clement VI is one of humanistic involvement. In the pontificate of Clement VI can be found the seeds of Renaissance humanism, represented by realistic art forms, a rebirth of classical literature, and the presence of humanist scholars at the papal court. Confined by the realities of the Anglo-French war and the Black Death, Clement VI was able to achieve only limited results

Clement of Alexandria and the Logos

Director of a catechetical school in Alexandria, Clement employed a key concept in Middle Platonism, i.e. Logos, as a means to spread the Gospel among Hellenized Egyptians and Berbers. Ever the pedagogue, Clement freely employed rich metaphors; especially memorable was Christ the Minstrel ; singing a ... new song for the cosmos