The author weaves a picture of life at Oxford University in the 1840s, where he himself was at that time, at Oriel College, where he excelled in sports rather than academics.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
They mean the realities of liberty and not the academics of theory.
"The Art of Public Speaking"
Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
In the disparaging references to the Latin writers on Greek philosophy before the appearance of his own Tusculan Questions and academics, he makes no exception in favour of Lucretius.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar