The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The Story of Virgil's Aeneid: Introduction and Readings in Latin (and English) by Professor Moses Hadas (1955)
The Latin Language: Introduction and Reading in Latin (and English) by Professor Moses Hadas of Columbia University (1955)
Plato on the Death of Socrates: Introduction with Readings from the Apology and the Phaedo in Greek & in English trans. He was fluent in Yiddish German ancient Hebrew ancient Greek Latin French and Italian and well-versed in other languages. Foreword by Alvin C.

Bill students brought forth an appreciation of his domain for those without the specialized training of classicists. Raised in Atlanta in a Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish household his early studies included rabbinical training; he graduated from Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1926) and took his doctorate in classics in 1930.