Word: greeke
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Today is the last opportunity for candidates for the Boylston Prizes in Election to report. The competition is open to members of the Junior and Senior classes, and will consist of the recitation of selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors, each selection to be approximately five minutes in length. All men who intend to compete should see Professor Baker in Lower Massachusetts between 3 and 5 o'clock today to register and make preliminary arrangements as to subjects...
According to the terms of the award the students speak, not their own compositions, but selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors; the proportion in English is to be at least two out of three. There are two first prizes of $30 and three second prizes of $20 each...
...Bowdoin Prizes established by Governor James Bowdoin of the class of 1745 and increased by G. S. Bowdoin in 1901, are given for dissertations in English, Greek and Latin. The English prizes are three, one first prize of two hundred and fifty dollars, and two second prizes of one hundred dollars each...
...elimination of Greek from Princeton's entrance requirements will open her doors to many more students. However pleasurable to many Greek is no longer necessary to an appreciation of contemporary problems. Translations answer the purpose well. This innovation seems to be in harmony with our times. In like manner, Yale's move will open her doors to many more students. But is Yale going too far? Is not Latin so closely bound to our language and those of the European continent that a knowledge of it is essential to an understanding of modern speech? Can the mental training derived from...
...Princeton University faculty took action yesterday afternoon that will result in the abolition of the degree of bachelor of letters and will bring about several radical curriculum changes. It was voted that Greek will no longer be on the list of entrance requirements. Latin is to be retained as a requirement for the degree of A.B., but candidates for the degree of S.B. may substitute mathematics or science...