Word: latin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jones was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of Edmund Rostand's "Selection from Cyrano de Bergerac." The Boylston award of $50 was presented to Anastos for his delivery in the original Latin of "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice", from the Fourth Georgie by Virgil. Meyer, reciting a selection from Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus", and Greene, with Tennyson's "Ulysses", were awarded the two other Boylston prizes which had been announced as $30 each but which were yesterday increased...
...Friedrich, Assistant Professor of Government, to provide teaching relief for him and to assist in defraying living and other expenses in connection with his preparation of a new Latin (and possibly an English) edition of Johannes Althusius' "Politica Methodice Digesta...
...accord with the new arrangement German and French are placed on a par with Latin so that a student may offer an advanced knowledge of any one of these three to satisfy the requirement of a reading knowledge of one language. This is in line with the evolution from the strict rules of a number of years ago when it was necessary for under-graduates to appear before an examiner and be questioned individually by reading passages of a language text-book and answering questions on them...
...decision of the faculty to place the advanced French and German examinations of the College Entrance Board on equality with Latin Cp 4 as a satisfaction of the language requirements logically rounds out the recent acceptance for entrance credit of a fourth year at school of a modern language. A slow moving policy of freeing the undergraduate years from most elementary work is thus advanced. And the path of those who are prepared is cleared of the annoying obstacle of a reading examination or college course in a foreign language...
...Chemistry 4, Economics 6a, Economics 7a, Economics 38, English 2, English 7, English 79, English 91, Fine Arts 1c (at Fogg) Fine Arts 1f, Fine Arts 5e, Fine Arts 15g (at Fogg), French 6, Government 19, Greek G, Greek 8, History 1, History 13, History 15, Italian 10, Latin 12, Mathematics A, Mathematics 2, Mathematics 3, Military Science 1, Philosophy A, Philosophy 8a, Psychology 24, Romance Philology 1. Social Ethics 1a, Spanish...