Word: excolatur
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...University's Encyclopaedia Britannica (TIME, May 24), its film unit which is now working out plans for rapid expansion, its radio Round Table. > Hutchins inspired the students' Daily Maroon to offer $750 in prizes for a motto to replace the present one, Cres-cat Scientia Vita Excolatur, which means "Let Knowledge Grow That Life May Be Enriched." But some people do not understand Latin, and others do not understand "enriched" as spiritually as President Hutchins would wish. He proposed a line from Walt Whitman: "Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a new world...
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