Word: latin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regime teachers will not go with the school to its new quarters: Miss Laura V. Tanner, of the English Department, and History Teachers Kate B. Reynolds and Theodora Bartlett. Oldtimers who will not depart, and whom alumnae classify variously as "meanies" and "peaches," are the Misses Emily Crawford (Latin), Edith Marsden (Geography), Emily Bennett (English), Elizabeth Allen (Mathematics), Josie Herbert (English), Fedora Edgar and Alice C. Hubbard (Art), Annie M. (Latin) and Mary L. (Literature) Brinckerhoff...
...classicist, Francois Rabelais nevertheless defied Hippocrates, the Church and prevailing custom, to the extent of publicly dissecting a man who had been hanged. But the fascination of science waned. He divided his time between the hospital and the printing press. "At the Sign of the Griffin" he published various Latin documents two of which were "spurious, very spurious, absolutely spurious." Scholar that he was, his critical sense was temporarily submerged by an enthusiasm caught from the great humanists of his period. Some time later he abandoned both science and the humanities to play the monk at the Abbey of Saint...
Having had their opening game twice postponed on account of inclement weather the second of inclement weather the second University baseball team will make another attempt to open its season today when it opposes the Cambridge Latin nine on the Soldiers Field diamond at 4 o'clock. Coach Jack Kelleher, former professional star and a recent addition to the coaching staff will be piloting the Crimson nine for the first time in today's game...
...display are grouped according to the century in which they were printed, but at the same time an effort has been made to include the works of as many countries as possible. In the Fifteenth Genuine Germany is represented by the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, a large folio Latin, illustrated by fine wood cuts the people and scenes of the times...
Lately, brusque, kinetic Mustafha Kemal, President of the Republic of Turkey, glanced, too, at the tablets. Elsewhere in Turkey, by Presidential decree (TIME, Sept. 17), the Arabic script had been supplanted suddenly by the Latin alphabet, and President Kemal ordered that the Holy Inscriptions, like any others, must be spelled out in Latin characters...