Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expecting a flood of applicants for the honor of speaking at June Commencement, the Committee on Commencement Parts, headed by Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin, yesterday announced that trials will be held next month to determine the one of two fortunate "cum laudes" who will address their classmates in June...
...passages may be selections of prose or poetry from Latin, Greek, or English literature, and should not exceed seven minutes. They must be memorized for the contest. If entrants do not hear from Warren House within four days after application, their entries should be considered as accepted...
Most of Harvard's early presidents, including the first one, Henry Dunster, are here. They are under low, flat, horizontal marble monuments from the upturned surfaces of which the long Latin texts have been nearly completely worn away after over two centuries of weather. Others include the early puritan minister Thomas Shephard, the painter Washington Allston, and the author Richard Henry Dana...
...Latin American political events can any longer be unimportant to Americans-especially if they happen in Colombia. Colombia's 1,200-mile coastline faces both the Atlantic and the Pacific approaches of the Panama Canal. Its swamps and jungles cover potentially great (but unestimated) pools of petroleum, vital in modern war. Hence any stirring in Colombia's dense political underbrush is peculiarly significant...
Freshmen still thumbing course catalogues in an effort to pick out an agreeable field of concentration and others who wish to dabble outside an already established major field will be briefed tonight from 8 to 8:15 o'clock by William C. Greene, professor in Greek and Latin, in the first of a series of Crimson Network broadcasts by department heads...