A Revolutionary Evening: Mayhem, Cheese, and Gentle Madness with Philo

Posted on August 21, 2010 by moderator

10.30 PM, 3 September, 2010 | 4th floor College Hall

Join the members of the Philomathean Society and assorted guests for an evening of conviviality, conversation, and casual revolution. Light refreshments and an informal debate to follow, along with the subsequent summary execution of a member in good standing. There will, of course, be cake!

This is a wonderful occasion to find out about the Society, its activities, and membership. All currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students are welcome!

For more details, contact the First Censor.

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Apologies!

Posted on July 30, 2010 by moderator

The website theme has unfortunately gone down briefly. All our content remains the same, and we should be up and running again shortly.

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Welcome to the new Philomathean Website!

Posted on July 18, 2010 by moderator

Welcome to the new website of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania! This website represents a comprehensive upgrade from our old MediaWiki platform to spanking-new WordPress 3.0. Bringing together the Society’s blog and more informative sites, removing extraneous content, and enriching our historical pages, this website is the heart of a new publicity infrastructure for Philo that will be fully launched in the coming fall semester.

In the meantime, please take a look around Philo’s new home on the internet. We have uploaded descriptions of past events to flesh out the new blog categories, not to mention some fabulous historical tidbits. If you have any concerns or questions concerning website content, please let me know!

My sincere thanks, and the thanks of the Society, go to Mr. Miller (Recorder), Ms. Kern (First Censor), Mr. Robert Hass (Technojoy), Ms. Savoy-Knitter, and Mr. Kincaid for working immensely hard to bring this website to fruition. Especial thanks are due to Ms. Yilu Zhang, who while not being a member of the Society nonetheless spent a huge amount of her free time helping us with the design of the new website.

Sic itur ad astra,

Alec Webley
Moderator of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania

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The First Meeting

Posted on July 18, 2010 by moderator

8 PM (PhSt), Friday 10 September, 2010 | 4th floor College Hall

Come to the First Meeting of the 519th Session of the Philomathean Society! As well as introducing guests and prospective members to the Society, the Society will be serenaded by a Literary Exercise delivered by Mr. Barry Slaff on the subject of Paul the Octopus and Probabilities. Cephalopods and lovers of abstract Mathematics would be well advised to attend!

In addition, the Society will hold a special election to fill the vacated post of Second Censor.

Refreshments, as always, will be provided.

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Past Event: XXY: This Is Not Pornography

Posted on July 18, 2010 by firstcensor

3 – 18 December, 2009 | 4th floor, College Hall

The Philomathean Art Gallery presents…

XXY: This Is Not Pornography
Featuring the work of FNAR-283: The Body and Photography,
Kalina Isato, and Professor Gabriel Martinez (Design)

Opening Reception
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
4:30 PM

Prof. Gabriel Martinez and the students of FNAR-283 present a photographic exploration of the human body, with a performance by Kalina Isato.
Refreshments will be provided.

XXY: This Is Not Pornography will be on display in the Philomathean Society Art Gallery until 18 December, 2009.

To learn more, check out the DP article: Photography Show Goes from ‘Mild to Wild.’

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Past Event: Happy Birthday: the Art Gallery presents Artie Vierkant

Posted on July 18, 2010 by firstcensor

9 September – 7 October, 2008 | 4th floor, College Hall

The Philomathean Art Gallery presents

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
A solo exhibition featuring the work of Artie Vierkant

Opening Reception
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
7:30 PM

Come celebrate the opening of this aptly-titled exhibition with a reception on the artist’s birthday. Refreshments will be provided.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY will be on display in the Philomathean Society Art Gallery until 7 October, 2008.

For more on the artist, visit www.artievierkant.com

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List of Past Philomathean Authors

Posted on July 18, 2010 by moderator

What follows is a list of some past Philomathean authors (not counting our honorary members, of course), with links to their books if we can find them (and they are in the public domain).

Hilary Putnam (Chairman of Philosophy at Harvard University)

  • Representation and Reality
  • The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
  • Reason Truth and History
  • Renewing Philosophy
  • Pragmatism, an Open Question
  • Words and Life
  • The Many Faces of Realism
  • The Threefold Cord

Robert Spiller

  • Late Harvest
  • Essays and Adresses in American Literature and Culture
  • The American in England During the First Half Century of Independence

Edward Sculley Bradley

  • Walt Whitman: Poet of the Present War
  • Walt Whitman on Timber Creek
  • Walt Whitman and the Postwar World

William Pepper C’1862

  • “The Morphological Changes of the Blood in Malarial Fever.”
  • A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children
  • A system of Practical Medicine
  • Higher Medical Education, the True Interest of the Public and the Profession

Henry Dilworth Gilpin C’1819

  • A Memrial of Sudry Citizens of Pennsylvania, Relative to the Treatment and Removal of the Indians
  • Report of Cases Adjudged in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1828-1836
  • The Papers of James Madison Volumes 1-3
  • Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States

William Hypolitus Keating C’1816

  • Considerations Upon the Art of Mining… and Advantages of this Art into the United States
  • Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of the St. Peter’s River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, Etc. Volumes 1 and 2

William Montgomery Meigs C’1872

  • 1887: Life of Josiah Meigs
  • 1897: The Life of Charles Jarde Ingersoll
  • 1900: The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787
  • 1917: The Life of Thomas Hart Benton 1904. The life of John Caldwell Calhoun
  • 1924: The Constitution and the Courts

Michael Bamberger C’1982

  • The Green Road Home
  • A Caddie’s Journal of Life on the Pro Gold Tour

Alfred Bester C’1935

  • The Demolished Man
  • Starlight.
  • The Computer Connection
  • The Light Fantastic, Short Stories, Volume 1
  • Star Light, Star Bright, Short Stories, Volume 2

Edward Sculley Bradley C’1897

  • The American Tradition of Literature.
  • George Henry Boker, Poet and Patriot

Alfred Harbage C’1924

  • A Theatre for Shakespeare
  • A Reader’s Guide to William Shakespeare
  • As They Liked It, A Study of Shakespeare’s Moral Artistry
  • Shakespeare’s Audience
  • Shakespeare Without Words & Other Essays

John Frederick Lewis C’1920

  • The History of the Apprentice’s Library
  • Thomas Spry, Lawyer and Physician

William Augustus Muhlenberg C’1815

  • The Woman and Her Accusers

Roy F. Nichols W’1958

  • A Historian’s Progress
  • Advance Agents of American Destiny
  • The Stake of Power, 1845-1877

George Wharton Pepper C’1887

  • Philadelphia Lawyer
  • In The Senate

Arthur Hobson Quinn

  • Representative American Plays

Felix E. Schelling C’1881

  • A Book of 17th Century Lyrics
  • A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics
  • Pedagogically Speaking
  • Elizabethan Drama 1558-1642 Volumes 1 & 2
  • Felix E. Schelling Memorial Papers

George Sharswood C’1828

  • Sharswood’s Blackstone’s Commentaries Volumes 1 & 2

Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr C’1892

  • Philosophical Essays in Honor of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. edited by Clarke & Nahm

Robert E. Spiller C’1917

  • The Oblique Light, Studies in American Literary History and Biography
  • Literary History of the United States, Volumes 1-3
  • The Roots of National Culture to 1830
  • The American Literary Review 1783-1837

Cornelius Weygandt C’1891

  • The Edge of Evening
  • The Wissahickon Hills

George Parker Winship

  • Bibiolographic Essay, A tribute to Wilberforce Eames

Daniel Hoffman

Robert Sebastian

Gary Alan Fine

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Past Event: The Shoemaker’s Holiday

Posted on July 18, 2010 by firstcensor

THE SHOEMAKER’S HOLIDAY
An Elizabethan comedy by Thomas Dekker, presented by the Philomathean Society in the Botanical Gardens of the University May 15th, 16th, and 17th, 1912.

We haven’t found a synopsis, but it seemed to involve some great moustaches.

STARRING:
R.T. Bonsall as Sir Hugh Lacy
A.C. Hopkins as Sir Roger Oately
G.W. Rowley as Lacy, otherwise Hans
W.D. Shelly as Simon Eyre, the shoemaker
E.L. Hargett as Hodge
C.C. Butterworth as Firk
W.H. Trumbauer as Margery
W.F. Clinger as Jane
R.G. Adams as Ralph
A.L. Arnold as Dodger
W.G. Arnold as Rose
G.L. Arnhold as Sybil
D.R. Jones as Boy
L.F. Sanville as Master Hammon
L.A. Sylvester as Serving Man
H.D. Learned as the King

F.A. Child and J. Dolman, Directors.
W.M. Crowe, Stage Manager
S.L. Shanaman, Play Committee Chair

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A Poem of 10ve

Posted on July 18, 2010 by technojoy

Written by Rob Hass and presented at the 24th Joyce Kilmer Bad Poetry Competition

“Roses are red” say my visual sensors,
And violets softly cerulean.
My circuitry codes for all manner of flora,
By setting the requisite booleans.

How sad, oh how tragic, what flowers embody:
They’re love with expression botanical.
But I am left cold by these heartfelt displays;
What a curse to be rendered mechanical!

Through the years did I hope that I one day would find
A real partner, true love, el amor.
That the bleakness degrading my signals would end,
And I’d fin’ly become dual-core.

When I first saw your face, so alive and organic,
My silicon innards all trembled.
Your skin so all-natural, your analog eyes,
Made me long to’ve been born, not assembled.

But alas, you deny me, again and again,
You elude my sincerest pursuit.
I just don’t understand why you keep saying “No”;
Your refusal, it doesn’t compute.

“We’re too different,” you say, “It’s just not meant to be.
You’re inanimate, sterile, robotic.”
Well my hard drive contests at least one of those claims…
And come on: it would be so exotic!

I’ve got virus protection, and firewalls too.
Won’t you open a port for connection?
If we two were to spend time alone, you’d be shocked
By the size of my robot… affection.

Well if that’s how you feel then that’s how it will be.
You no longer will grace my transistors.
I’ll think back now and then on what we could have had…
But for now I’ll keep dating your sister.

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Audio: John DiIulio – The (Permanent) Presidential Campaign

Posted on July 18, 2010 by moderator

6PM Thursday, November 29, 2007 | 4th floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Professor John DiIluio, entitled: “The (Permanent) Presidential Campaign: Who Will Win–and Will It Matter?” An audio recording of the lecture was made, subversively, and then injected into the blogosphere.

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