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Earnest Classicists and sentimental conservatives have combined in decrying President Conant's proposed elimination of the Latin requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree. The first of these groups advances several excellent arguments to prove the value of a knowledge of Latin; the second propounds sonorous platitudes concerning "the badge of culture" and "the heritage of the ages." Since sentimentalists, concerned always with preserving some golden age that has had its existence only in their imaginations, are impervious to logic, supporters of Mr. Conant's proposal must turn their attention to the sincere students of the Classics...
Seniors and others who expect to complete the requirements for the Bachelor's Degree in June must file at 4 University Hall, not later than Wedensday, February 20, an application for the degree, on a card to be obtained at the Information Desk, 4 University Hall...
...pipe, his work, his wife. As she grew older, both knew she was dying of cancer: neither ever mentioned the subject to the other. They lived in a cottage all their lives, never kept a servant. When she died (1930) he tried manfully to go on with his old-bachelor ways, but he was an old man himself by then. His morning run became a walk, then a snooze by the fire. Three years later, at the age of 75. Lexicographer Fowler quietly joined his lady...
...Madison, Bachelor Anderson lives with three sisters in a house his father built near Lake Mendota. A brother, Isaac, is on the New York Times Book Review staff. Artist Anderson gets many a Henry idea from watching moppets in the streets. Big-framed, grey, mild, plain as homespun, he looks and talks like a Norwegian woodworker, lacks the jargon of the comic-stripper. For fun he goes to a carpenter's bench in his house, turns out odd pieces of woodwork. A child's desk of his design is marketed in Milwaukee for about...
Professor Hansen, 39, is a bachelor...