Word: latin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Normal" schools received their name (Latin: norma = rule) from one Joseph Lakanal, who agitated for teacher-training (Ecoles Normales) in France, in 1794. M. Lakanal was later president of the University of Louisiana...
...medieval credulity. Dean Robert Bell Burke of Pennsylvania, after four years' labor with the key discovered by a colleague, the late Dr. William Romaine Newbold, announced completion of the world's first translation of Friar Roger's 800-page Opus maius, prodigious cryptogram in monkish dog-Latin that men had thought might contain marvelous secrets.* Particularly was a skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only, in his scholarly way, described one. The formula...
...head the firm now constitute the smallest partnership of any important Wall Street House, and continue the tradition of a closed group. James Loeb, Solomon Loeb's son, joined the firm in 1888, withdrew in 1901, to give his time to classical literature. He has been having Latin and Greek works translated into English, and has been paying all publication losses. For this activity, Cambridge University gave him its degree as Doctor of Laws (TIME, March, 23, 1925). He has long lived in Munich, Germany...
Professor A. B. Hart '80, Professor Emeritus of United States History, Professor C. H. Haring '07 professor of Latin American History, and J. W. Perkins 1L, have been asked to speak at the meeting, at which D. W. Chapman '27 will preside...
...Harvard 2 67 Tues. at 4 Widener J 68 Tues. at 10 Harvard I HYGIENE 1 Mon. at 9 Harvard 1 INDIC PHILOLOGY 1b Mon. at 2 Widener A 3 Mon. at 3 Widener A 8 Mon. at 11 Emerson G ITALIAN 5 Mon. at 9 Sever 5 LATIN B Mon. at 11 Sever 18 8 Mon. at 9 Sever 14 MATHEMATICS A Consult Professor Graustein C Consult Professor Graustein D Mon. at 2 Server 35 5b Mon. at 11 Server 36 14b Tues. at 12 Server 20 16 Mon. at 9 Server 35 22b Tues. at 9 Server...