Word: acti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer in the "Graduates Magazine" has merely fallen into that error which so frequently ensnares such "laudatores temporis acti"; having compared the best of his own generation with the worst of ours, he fancies that he has accurately estimated our worth! It is only fifteen years since Harry Elkins Widener '07, began to accumulate the books now housed in the Widener Room--a truly superb collection! It would be very difficult for us to believe that the tastes of students have altered appreciably within that time. In fact I know myself of one undergraduate who is now laying the foundation...
...reconciled to the lecture system and the taking of notes. Some feel that Harvard men are given the preference. Then there is the old cry: "Now, at Columbia,--or the University of Chicago,--or Siwash College",--or where not. And I have always found that the loudest "laudatores collogli acti" and those who protest against Harvard injustice are Scholarship-holders. A fitting subject for a fable. F. M. CAREY '20, 3G. November...