Trivium Pursuit Blog

Nature Craft

by | Nov 17, 2006 |

Here are some photos of a Nature Craft project Johannah prepared one year long ago as a 4-H project. Nature Craft is something you make using only items found in nature (leaves, grass, flowers, bark, rocks, etc.). This project consists of a thin horizontal slice of a...

The Trivium

by | Nov 16, 2006 |

What is the goal of the Trivium? The goal of the Trivium is to give the student the necessary tools or skills which make him free from his teacher so that he can learn by himself. That’s why the Trivium tools are called the Liberal or liberating Arts. What vocation or...

The Last Days of Edward Payson, D.D.

by | Nov 15, 2006 |

Thanks to Ed Rodatus for making this tract available. Edward Payson, D.D. was born July 25, 1783 in Rindge, New Hampshire, where his father was a distinguished clergyman. For the last twenty years of his life, Edward was the pastor of The Second Church in Portland,...

Equivocation

by | Nov 14, 2006 |

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty,...

Walter Langley

by | Nov 13, 2006 |

Walter Langley (1852 - 1922) English artist. Born to a very large family near the slums of Birmingham, Langley started his artistic career at fifteen as an apprentice to a lithographer. At twenty-one he won a scholarship to South Kensington and studied design. Later...

Sorry…..

by | Nov 11, 2006 |

I haven't been able to post much lately. Harvey and I traveled to Virginia to attend a barn dance and then on to East Tennessee to give seminars with a particular famous person. While at the barn dance, someone tricked me into eating some stuff out of a very large vat...

Help Break Guinness World Record

by | Nov 10, 2006 |

Yesterday, Walden Media announced their attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously in Multiple Locations using a passage from E.B. White's classic book, Charlotte's Web. Check out the Walden Media web site for details....

Spelling Bee Cracks Down on Steriods

by | Nov 10, 2006 |

November 04, 2006 WASHINGTON--Organizers of the National Spelling Bee this week announced a crackdown on steroids and other unauthorized performance enhancers rampant among contestants. Roger Diaz, NSB spokesman, said yesterday that the organization has been...

Gordon Clark

by | Nov 9, 2006 |

Dear Harvey, Greetings. I want to first mention that my wife and I have learned much over the years by owning and reading many of your publications. We appreciate the contribution your entire family has made to Christian homeschooling. I'd like to ask a couple of...

J.C. Philpot

by | Nov 3, 2006 |

Through Baca's Vale by J.C. Philpot November 4 Love is of God. 1 John 4:7 Love is a gift which the risen Mediator has received that he may freely communicate it out of his fullness to his people. And we must be brought to feel that it is a gift. Could we produce or...

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