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History:
The Ciceronian Circle was organized in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1965. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) and “his example of intellectual achievement and inspiration” was the impetus for founding the Ciceronian Circle. The circle meets approximately once a month, with members presenting papers on chosen topics.
Scope and Content:
The bound volumes contain minutes of meetings, papers presented at meetings, and menus. This collection contains volumes 1-8 (1965-1976).
Series Identification:
Series 1. Bound Volumes. 1965-1976. 8 items. (14.5 linear inches)
Appendix 1. Papers contained in the following volumes:
“The Theodore G. Bilbo Papers” by William D. McCain; “Inductive Versus Deductive Reasoning” by J.S. Long; “The Influence of the Creel Committee and the American Red Cross on Russian-American Relations, 1917-1919” by Claude E. Fike; “Henry Stuart Foote: Confederate Congressman and Exile” by John Edmond Gonzales; “Joseph Story” by William H. Hatcher; “Erasmus and Sixteenth Century Humanism” by Francis L. Miller; “Parson Clapp and the Strangers Church of New Orleans” by R.C. Cook; “The Origin and History of Capital Punishment, Attacks Upon It and Its Defense” by Frank D. Montague, Jr.; “Forensic Medicine” by Thomas F. Puckett; “W.C. Fields” by E.A. Attix.
“The Diaries of Samuel Pepys” by William D. McCain; “Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.” by Claude E. Fike; “A History of Science from the Seventieth Century to Date: From the Point of View of Nature’s Offerings and Man’s Growing Understanding of Their Interactions” by J. Scott Long; “Sign and Symbol: Philosopher and Poet” by Charles W. Moorman; “Some Aspects of 19th Century American Social History” by John E. Gonzales; “Freeman’s Washington” by William H. Hatcher; “McGowah Farm: Life on an Early 20th Century Cotton Plantation” by R.C. Cook; “A Man of Conscience: Thomas More” by Francis L. Miller; “An Introduction to Wine” by Frank D. Montague, Jr.; “Gout” by Thomas F. Puckett; “Chaplin” by E.A. Attix.
“The Health of Samuel Pepys” by William D. McCain; “A History of the American Circus with Emphasis on P.T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers” by Claude E. Fike; “King Arthur and the British National Character” by Charles W. Moorman; “Plunkitt of Tammany Hall” by William H. Hatcher; “Twentieth Century Science-I have Seen It All Happen” by J. Scott Long; “’Oklahoma!’ Twenty-fifth Anniversary of American Musical Theatre, 1943-1968” by John E. Gonzales; “A Study of Henry VIII’s Reign” by Claude E. Fike; “In the Beginning” by R.C. Cook; “Occult Phenomena” by F. L. Miller; “To Sleep: Perchance to Dream: Ay There’s the Rub” by Thomas F. Puckett; “An Active ‘Passivist’ and His Litigation” by Frank D. Montague, Jr.; “Another Fine Mess: Laurel and Hardy” by E.A. Attix.
“The Origins of the Thousand Nights and One Night” by William E. McCain; “Those Heroic Beatles” by Charles W. Moorman; “Mars-1938” by John Edmond Gonzales; “Forty Years of Publishing Moonlighting” by Robert C. Cook; “Some Direct Knowledge of the Minor Religious Sects of Eastern Pennsylvania” by J. Scott Long; “Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello” and “The South River Club” by William J. Hatcher; “Origins of Some Modern Customs” by F.L. Miller; “The Appeal of Sherlock Holmes” by Chares Moorman; “Spirit of ’76, Whither Goest Thou” by Frank D. Montague, Jr.; “The Keeping of Time” by Thomas F. Puckett; “Reality Therapy” by Edward Attix.
“Some Reminiscences of the United States Archivist in Italy, 1944-1945” by William D. McCain; “The 1920s: Prelude for the Sixties” by Claude E. Fike; “Two Scots in America by One American in Scotland” by John Edmond Gonzales; “I Was There” by Robert C. Cook; “Pilgrimages and Pilgrims, Chaucerian and Ciceronian” by Charles W. Moorman; “The War to End All Wars” by Francis L. Miller; “The Thirties” by William H. Hatcher; “Watchmaking in America” by Thomas F. Puckett; “The Edgewater Gulf Hotel-Requiescat in Pace” by Frank D. Montague, Jr.; “Forty Years in the Dark: Recollections of a Cineaste” by Edward A. Attix.
“The Origins of the ‘Thousand Nights and One Night’,” Part II by William D. McCain; “Rasputin” by Claude E. Fike; “Heredity vs. Intelligence and Modern Psychology” by R.C. Cook; “The Death of Arthur” by Charles W. Moorman; “The Last Three Decades in the Nineteenth Century in the United States” by John Edmond Gonzales; “Foreign Scholars View the U.S. Constitution” by William H. Hatcher; “Biography of a Disease” by Thomas F. Puckett; “Ancestral Reverence and the Libel of the Dead” by Frank D. Montague, Jr.; “Kane is Risen” by Edward A. Attix.
“The Campaign to Change the Name of Mississippi Southern College to the University of Southern Mississippi, August 25, 1955-February 27, 1962,” by William D. McCain; “Four Views of a Dragon (Five if You’re Good),” by Charles W. Moorman; “The Life and Times of Madame Germaine De Stael,” Part I, by Claude E. Fike; “The 1927 Great Mississippi River Valley Flood,” by John Edmond Gonzales; “Stephen F. Mallory and the Confederate State’s Navy,” by Joseph G. McKinnon; “Alexis de Tocqueville,” by William H. Hatcher; “Early Humor of the Old South,” by Robert C. Cook; “Whence the Experience of Messrs. Hickson and Parker and Related Ruminations,” by Frank D. Montague, Jr.; “Three Physicians,” by Thomas F. Puckett; “Hurricanes,” by Van C. Temple, Sr.; “The 1811 Great New Madrid Earthquakes” by Hugh White.
“There Are No Chi Omegas At Purdue,” by Charles W. Moorman; “Radio in the Thirties,” by John Edmond Gonzales; “The Life and Times of Madame Germaine De Stael,” Part II, by Claude E. Fike; “Oliver Gromwell,” Part One, by Robert Cecil Cook; “Some Notes on the Origins of Medical Practice,” by Edward A. Attix, M.D.; “Some Observations of a Genealogist, 1965-1975,” by William D. McCain; “Winston Churchill,” by William H. Hatcher; “The Young Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph-Archduke of Austria,” by Joseph McKinnon; “The Harpe Brothers-Big and Little,” by Hugh White; “My Grandfather,” by Van C. Temple, M.D.; “Some Notes on How The Sweet Worm Turned,” by Edward A. Attix; “About Wind and Winds,” by Thomas F. Puckett; “How I Became Interested in Opera,” by John Edmond Gonzales; “Three Parsons and a Crazy Girl,” by Charles W. Moorman; “By the Skin of Our Teeth: A Bicentennial Message,” by Claude E. Fike.