Word: latin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen Samuel Taylor Coleridge's copy of 'Barclaii Argenis", with notes in the owner's hand. This volume is the gift of Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English Octava Rima...
...schools may be admitted without examination. The whole movement is on the one hand, toward wider geographical distribution, and on the other toward admission requirements emphasizing the general culture and possibilities of candidates rather than on the mastery of certain definite facts divided into the compartments of second year Latin, English history, trigonometry etcetera...
...dead hand of the past lies heavy upon our institutions. The pre-eminence of Latin survives from the trivium; and the pre-eminence of mathematics is our inheritance from the quadrivium of the Middle Ages. Far stronger, however, than the priorities of the classics and mathematics, are are traditional methods of instruction and of college life...
...Educational System of Latin Europe and also wherever the Latin countries of Europe have colonized is based upon that of France in which the lycee is the very heart of the system. And the educational system of Teutonic and Slavic Europe is based upon that of Germany in which the Gymnasium is the very heart of the system. When, therefore, I make some comparison between our system of higher education and those of France and Germany, I am really making a comparison between our system and that of the civilized world. The lycee and the gymnasium complete the general education...
...those individuals from whom Charlestonians had learned to expect misery-a "dark" Chantrell, like her twin brother, Stephen. In him their hot strain from a Latin ancestor was provided with a safety outlet; his temper could boil over. Cordelia was mistress of her intensities, to her great misfortune, and it was she who resolved a grave dilemma into happiness for Stephen and tragedy for herself, tragedy punctuated by two pistol shots...