Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addressed the students at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. Said he: "Not because we want Communism, but rather because we do not want it, we Americans must change completely our economic system. It is amazing how many people blindly assume that this capitalistic commercialism of ours is as ancient and abiding as the very order of nature. . . .* Sanctioned by industrial practice, justified by philosophy, obsessed by so-called religion, this world-wide selfishness is cataclysmic. . . . Our absorption in this process of acquiring more things is as silly as the preoccupation of the middle ages with theological argument. . . . We must learn...
Dartmouth in the East, however, and such universities as Illinois, Michigan, and Leland Stanford in the West, have abolished the requirement of Ancient Languages for the A. B. degree, and have put the Classics on the same plane as the more practical, if traditionally less honored, modern languages. Harvard would certainly be in good company in changing its present requirements; and Harvard is in a position where such a change is perhaps even more logical than in the other universities. The system of Concentration and Distribution has so effectively separated Harvard undergraduates into students of Liberal Arts and students...
...find a similar hostility to Prohibition in any girls' college in the country. Mrs. Sabin seems to suggest that either the young women of America have acquired a taste for light wines and beer or have developed an eagerness to put an end to a hypocritical national blight. An ancient propriety, not particularly encouraged in modern feminine circles, points to only the latter...
...awarded an A.B. or an S.B. should depend entirely on his college work. Instead, the candidate for an A.B. is obliged to show evidence of three years of Latin in school, or two years of Greek, or of their equivalent. Since comparatively few men continue in ancient languages in college, the result is a separation of graduates based to a great extent on their pre-college studies. From this arises the present conglomeration of degrees. Many men concentrating in Modern Languages are graduated as S.B.'s, while some dwellers in Mallinckrodt whose only college acquaintance with the more gentle side...
Doubtless one of the rarest forms of twentieth century amusement is that of attending a Roman comedy, presented in the ancient style, with Roman scenery and costumes, and with the lines all in Latin. And indeed proportional to the rarity is the greatness of the opportunity for witnessing the "Menaechmi", the comedy of Plautus, produced by the Harvard Classical Club...