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...four years old, and already papa has him concerned about college. At 17 he may well become what one educator calls the U.S. high school senior-"A bundle of nerves in a rat race." Never before have so many Americans coveted the 700-year-old Artium Bacca-laureus-and never before has the competition been stiffer...
Tulane. Rice says of his alma mater: "The diploma said I was a baccalaris artium, and when the president handed it to me he welcomed me into the 'company of educated men.' They were both liars...
...term "the Classics" in this University is a dull joke in the minds of too many of its students. Most of them have memorized and forgotten the slight vocabulary necessary to turn a given amount of Cicero into English and thus distinguish themselves by the degree of Artium Baccalaurcus from their unlearned brethren of the S.B. The pursuit of the Classics as a four-year course of study is definitely exotic and the expression "dead languages," uttered in a tone of contempt, illustrates the depths to which this subject has sunk...
...last November the urbane B. B. C. has been moving piecemeal from quarters adjoining the famed Savoy Hotel on the River Thames back and up to its new Broadcasting House, an eight-story flatiron building between Regents Park and Oxford Circus. Termed by its Latin inscription a Templum Hoc Artium et Musarum, the big white flatiron is dedicated Deo Omnipotent, managed by lohanm Reith Equite (John Reith, Knight...
Magistrum Artium...
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