Word: arcanum
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Despite the conventioneers' exuberance, Latin is still languishing in American high schools. The number of students taking it dropped precipitously from 626,199 in 1965 to 184,445 in 1974, and courses were deleted as being too dry and dusty. But the appeal of the arcanum shows signs of reviving Latin, along with the current educational drift back to basics. New courses in mythology and literature in translation have attracted students too. One innovative, popular program-used in ghetto schools to reinforce basic English grammar-even teaches conversational Latin by audiovisual methods. Besides, says Minter, "the classics still have...
...insurance fraternal orders. In the former classification, meeting largely as clubs with an interest in good works, are the Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows, Eagles, Shriners, Moose, Knights of Pythias. In the latter group, whose main purpose is social security through insurance, are the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Royal Arcanum, Maccabees, Independent Order of Foresters, and, largest of all, the Modern Woodmen of America who last week gathered in convention in Chicago...
...Francis Egan, Newport, R. I.; Frank Morgan Emery, Pittsfield, N. H.; John Joseph Figoni, Springfield; Roscoe Thornton Foust, Portsmouth, N. H.; Robert Churchill Francis, West Medford; William Lamson Griffin, Jr., East Orange, N. J.; James Philip Haffner, Chicago, Ill.; Hilding Fridtjof Conrad Hanson, Exeter, N. H.; Earl Leon Heck, Arcanum, Ohio; Granville Hicks, Framingham; Joseph Frederick Holzinger, Westfield; David Edgar Knapp, Bucksport, Me.; Clair Thomas Leonard, Newtonville; Jacob Lerman, Chelsea; Roger Albertus Lutz, Newton; James Andrew McPeek, Cambridge, Ohio; William Joseph Maier, Jr., Huntington, W. Va.; Raymond John Norton, East Boston; Stanley John Gregory Nowak, Chicopee Falls; George Owen...
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