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Horace Greeley was one of the most interesting and eccentric figures in American history. At one time or another he was involved in almost every political and social issue of his era, ranging from election reform to spiritualism and phrenology. Even in appearance Greeley sparked comment; his round face was ringed by white whiskers, he wore a full length coat on even the hottest days and always carried a bright umbrella.
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The Horace Williams property, the state-owned parcel where Carolina North is proposed, is a wooded 963-acre tract. Although the plans call for developing less than a third of the property south of Municipal Drive, university officials have been reluctant to agree to put most of the undisturbed land into a legally binding conservation agreement.
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Horace Trahan and other members of the New Ossun Express, including James Prejean on bass, John Best on frottoir, Paul Edwards on drums, and Paul Washington on guitar, are pictured at the Liberty Theater in May 2001. The other picture was taken in late September 2000 at the St. Thomas More Church Bazaar in Eunice, with Brazos Huval on bass. Trahan says that he likes all kinds of music. He does not want to be restricted to any single genre, but instead he wants to play good music, regardless of how it might be labeled.
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Horace Williams, a professor of philosophy (depicted here in the oil painting by Mary Rees Graves), was tremendously popular among his students. According to Thomas Wolfe in You Can't Go Home Again, "He was a great teacher, and what he did for us, and for others before us for fifty years, was not to give us his 'philosophy' . . . but to communicate to us his alertness, his originality, his power to think." Students met with him many nights in the front parlor.
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Horace was born on Dec. 8, 65 B.C., at Venusia (Venosa) on the borders of Lucania and Apulia. His father was a freedman, probably of old Italian stock, and had retired on his savings as an auctioneer's clerk to live on a small farm there. He had... high ambitions for Horace, who was apparently his only son, and took him to Rome, where he studied under the famous grammaticus Orbilius. Orbilius left Horace with the impression of numerous floggings and a deep distaste for Livius Andronicus and the early Latin poets. Horace's father himself served as his paedagogus, an office usually reserved for a slave, whose job it was to accompany a boy to and from school and in general to protect him from moral and physical dangers. Horace later paid tribute to his father for this care and attention, attributing whatever good there might have been in his character to the effects of this tutelage.
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QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS, known in English as Horace, was born at Venusia, near the border of Apulia, in 65 B.C. His father, a former slave who had freed himself before the birth of his son, sent him to school in Rome. As a young man Horace went to Athens and studied philosophy at the famous schools. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in the army of Brutus, served at Philippi, and came back to Rome not long after. Deprived of his property as a result of the proscriptions, he began life anew at the age of twenty-four as a clerk in a public office. Not long after, he attracted the attention of Mæcenas, and soon became acquainted with Varius and Virgil, henceforth devoting himself to literary pursuits. HIs first work, the first book of Satires, was published in 35 B.C. About a year later, Mæcenas presented him with the celebrated Sabine Farm, and Horace was at liberty to the end of his life to do as he liked.
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