Word: caesares
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...Father of Our Country was born. Thirty years later, the rulers of the British Empire--despite their anti-Papist tendencies--decided Pope Gregory had been right in 1582 and Julius Caesar wrong in 46 B.C. Consequently, the CRIMSON will not publish tomorrow...
...Kenneth Clark contributed a 17th century unicorn horn; Sir Alister Hardy lent his mummified mermaid. From the museum's storerooms came the famed fabricated Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953), an Etruscan sarcophagus that was once the pride of the departments of antiquities, and the bust of Julius Caesar that graced the pages of Latin textbooks everywhere until in 1936 it was found to be a 19th century...
...Amherst Alumni News, President Calvin H. Plimpton quoted Amherst's application requirements for 1860: "Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, and Sallust or Caesar's Commentaries, Arnold's Latin Prose Composition, eight chapters; Xenophon's Anabasis and two books of Homer's Iliad; English Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra to Quadratic Equations, and two books of Loomis' Geometry or of Playfair's Euclid...
...monasteries, being in business is secondary to their real work, which is devoting themselves to contemplation. But the businessmen in monk's clothing know how to adapt themselves to Caesar's world as well. "We had to choose between operating our-business on our own tempo or getting into the economic cycle of progress," says St. Joseph's Father Holohan. The monks chose progress...
Winnie Ille Pu, by A.A. Milne, translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard. Children who read Latin will find the adventures of Pu, Porcellus and lor delightful, and laggards who trotted through Caesar years ago will derive much pleasure, or at least prestige, if the book is seen about the house...