Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practically synonymous with a classical training and consequently a knowledge of Latin or Greek was a valid requirement for an A. B. degree. This is no longer true, however, and the distinction between the two degrees, based solely on whether the candidate does, or does not, offer an ancient language, has outworn its usefulness...
...classical background. On the contrary, the present tendency is too much to neglect the classics and to forget that they still have a real part to play in a balanced education. No man should be a stranger to the literature and the philosophy of Greece. Study of the ancient languages, nevertheless, should be optional rather than compulsory...
...degree determined by a man's field of concentration is necessary to avoid the existing confusion of terms. Coupled with this, perhaps, should come an extension of the Ancient Authors requirements which already play important roles in several fields. These examinations, although often irritating, justify to some extent the claim that Harvard offers a liberal and inclusive education...
...alive to the seriousness of the situation. A Public Safety Act was issued making membership in the Irish Republican Army and eleven other secret organizations illegal.* A military tribunal was set up to try prisoners for sedition. Free State police raided a dozen homes, jailed 20 men in the ancient Arbour Hill Military Prison, where leaders of the Rebellion of 1916 were executed and buried...
Father Talbot, an associate editor of America (Jesuit weekly), knew that the Talbots are an ancient and illustrious Irish family, with both Roman Catholic and Protestant branches. But he had not heard of Matt Talbot. He made inquiries. To his amazement he discovered that Matt Talbot, a laborer, dead less than a year, had already acquired a reputation for almost unearthly piety. His biography by Sir Joseph Aloysius Glynn had been translated into a dozen languages, sold 60,000 copies. Known first to Dublin, then to the Catholic world, Matt Talbot's life was increasingly publicized until last week...