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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mothers' Day is not in France an occasion for bestowing bonbons, greeting cards or bouquets upon any and every mother. With Latin thrift and logic only especially meritorious mothers are honored-by the State...
When, on June 21, the Class of 1928 is welcomed to the fellowship of educated men, the division of its members according to degrees will be an enigma to most of the audience in Sever Quadrangle. The tradition that connects Baccalaureus in Artibus with a knowledge of Latin or Greek persists in its hold on the erudite mind, and the actual subject of a student's work in college plays little part in the determination of which degree he receives...
...candidate for Bachelor of Arts must present in some form proof of three years' study of Latin or two years' study of Greek. Once he is entered, though his choice may light upon the most inartistic of sciences, he is preparing for the degree of A.B. Although the work-on which assignment to this category is based has nothing to do with the college, since the greater part of candidates drop ancient languages upon leaving school, the listing on Commencement Day remains according to work in a secondary institution four or five years before. The result is such a confusion...
...Economics 11 Harvard 2 English 16 Emerson J English 48 Memorial Hall English 50b Memorial Hall French 5, 2 o'clock sect. Sever 23 French 25 Emerson F French 27 Sever 23 German 11 Sever 17 German 18 Sever 18 Government 6 Harvard 5 Indic Philology 1b Emerson A Latin A I Sever 18 Mathematics A III Harvard 3 Mathematics D Harvard 3 Psychology A Adams-Carlson Emerson A Carpenter-Williams Emerson D Psychology 5 Emerson J Slavic 5 Harvard 6 Social Ethics 3 Emerson J Zoology 6b Geol. Lec. Rm. 2 0'clock Botany 16 Farlow Herb. Chemistry...
...based upon the nature of the Apocrypha, or lost books, of the Bible. Certain of these, incorporated into the Old Testament by errant Hebrews and written down in the Greek Septuagint which is otherwise merely a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, were included by St. Jerome in his Latin Vulgate. Theologians in the middle ages questioned the authenticity of the Apocrypha which St. Jerome had accepted. The Council of Trent (1545-63) established their repute, since which time they have remained in the Vulgate, the official Catholic Bible, and in all translations of the Vulgate, such as the Douai...