Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authors from reading them in a schoolboy manner in Latin B. Such uninteresting teaching is not conducive to acquiring a love of the language or the things which are written in it. One learned classicist has suggested that the real way to secure a knowledge and love of ancient literature is to read it in translation until you have sufficient interest to try it in the original. This is probably true, but it seems almost impossible to let undergraduate minds learn it in that manner...
...thoroughly entertaining performance before the members of the House, the other House masters, President Conant, and many other prominent members of the faculty. Now even if the play had been poorly done, I would think the CRIMSON would critize it. Certainly enough space is wasted on prosaic reviews of ancient movies at the University. It may be argued that the play was privately given for a select audience and that the CRIMSON had no way of learning about this performance. The CRIMSON'S managing editor, however, lives in Kirkland House. One of the major events of the Houses, might...
Museum officials have also been cleaning some Chinese wall paintings, almost a thousand years old, which have been taken in pieces from the walls of caves. First the ancient pigment film is given a thorough cleansing and several layers of Japanese tissue and muslin are glued to the clean surface...
Revival of the ancient custom of celebrating John Harvard's birthday by appropriate services, has been announced by the Harvard Memorial Society. On next Monday, November 26, the accepted date for the birth of Harvard's founder, the regular morning chapel services will be supplanted by a program commemorating this event...
...benefited by Mediterranean cruises. Only country actually short of hotels is Greece. C. Liabratoulos told the sad-faced conference last week that his government would give a 20,000,000 drachma bonus (about $440,000) to the first promoter who would build a chain of modern hotels throughout that ancient land...