Word: latin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet study in the Paris Latin Quarter not far from the grey, ornate pile of the Church of Saint Sulpice, newsgatherers waited last week for Father Jean Verdier, a modest little priest who for years has guided the thoughts and prepared the minds of hundreds of young women preparing to take the veil at the novitiate school of St. Sulpice...
...lifelong student of language, Laureate Bridges has now justified his reputation. The English language, unlike Latin, Greek or French, is supposedly incapable of quantitative versification: i. e., the scansion of English verse is not dependent on "long" or "short" syllables since there is no such formal distinction between syllables in English. Sensitive ears, like those of Laureate Bridges, however, permit a treatment of English as Virgil treated Latin, with heed to both "long" and "short" syllables. When he speaks of "loose alexandrines" he is cracking a scholarly joke, for his careful quantitative measurement makes every line scan perfectly. The spelling...
...next program offered by the Instrumental Clubs will be given at the Roxbury Latin School on Friday, December...
...Boston Latin Second...
...weighted average of the team representing Exeter was 90.27 per cent; it was closely followed by Boston Latin School, winner for the last four years, with 89.78 per cent. There were 21 teams in competition for the Trophy...