Archive for July, 2007
New home for UofT Classics Department
by meggie on Jul.19, 2007, under Academics and News, Museums and Depts
In the most recent newsletter posted to all graduates of the University of Toronto Department of Classics, our outgoing Chair, Brad Inwood, had a rather remarkable announcement to make. Beginning September 2008, the new home of the Department of Classics and of Medieval Studies will be the large white building directly across Queens Park from the Royal Ontario Museum. This extensive space will also include the Woodrow Library that currently occupies the rough equivalent of a sitting room at 97 St. George Street.
There is a lovely bit of a joke here as well. Written across the pediment of the new building are the words “Department of Household Science”, something I believe Classics should be: something everyone knows a little about.
So congratulations to the Department on their new home! And a little bit of envy too, since I won’t be a student there to have the run of the place.
