Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under which king, Bezonian? Speak or die...
...direction of undergraduate study. And the renaissance of Latin and Greek which appears imminent must result from the free play of this principle. There is certainly as much to induce a study of Latin in Cicero's orations, as there is to induce a study of German in "Die Geschichte Einer Geige...
Professor Moore pointed out to his audience the danger of misinterpreting some of the finest of Horace's theories. "For instance," he said, "almost every student I have ever taught has told me that Quintus Horatius Flaccus originated the philosophy of 'Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow ye die!'" The Professor explained that while Horace did actually "Eat, drink, and make merry," he did it with moderation, and not at all in the spirit of the familiar "quotation...
Premier Poincaré then voiced personal tribute from his place on the front bench: "The words pronounced from this tribune some years ago by President Wilson have left in our memories an echo which will never die. We cannot forget that, at the moment the United States entered the War, President Wilson declared that the right was even more precious than peace. We have not forgotten, and we will not forget, that later he described the Rhine as the frontier of liberty. He consecrated his life to the ideals of justice. His name will remain forever in the memory...
Mary Garden: "I told reporters that when I die I want my body cremated and the ashes cast into Lake Michigan 'in front of Chicago.' Said I: 'Think how thrilled the bathers would be to have the ashes of Mary Garden swept up against them. . . But before I die I must get married...