Entries from May 2005

May 16, 2005

Spelunking with Professor Sinaiko

This last Saturday, May 14th, found a small number of alumni (10-15) at the Rochester Academy of Medicine, a fine old mansion on East Avenue, with Professor Herman Sinaiko, who was leading us on allegorical spelunking trip into the cave in Book VII of Plato’s Republic. Twenty-five years before, I had sat in Cobb Hall [...]