President's Message: Dr. Daniel Pomerantz
Beware the Ides of March!” Act II Scene 1, Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, a soothsayer. We hear it so often that most of us no longer think about the origins of the phrase. The Ides of a Roman month was the day of the full moon, usually around the fifteenth of the month. Since Shakespeare’s time, the Ides of March has been marked as an ominous day.
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