Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adams House, for instance," said John H. Finley, Jr., associate professor of Greek and Latin and Eliot House master, "has four entries. They must therefore use a card system for feminine guests, since the check-in-and-out book method, in use at such single-entry Houses as Lowell and Eliot, is impractical...
...Every Latin land has its patrons and its saints. Peru, already blessed with Santa Rosa, has had Our Lord of Miracles since October 1746, when an earthquake destroyed Lima. Only one wall, the wall of a little church in the city's poorest quarter, was left standing, and on it was a painting of the Christ, made by a nameless mulatto. Word of the miraculous preservation swept the ruins, and masses of people crowding around the wall started the first procession. As the procession advanced-so legend says-the earth stopped quaking...
...that all men now in College may graduate as a Bachelor of Arts, or at least as a Bachelor of Science who is a scientist . . . . but, regardless of the outcome, the modern student would be as much the loser if he did not hear the classicist's defense of Latin or Greek as the soul of education as if he chose to ignore Plato's theories of government...
...anomaly was born. Science began to take its place in the realm of knowledge, President Lowell bestowed B. S.'s on English concentrators and A.B.'s on physicists, and the late Dean Briggs aphorized on the B.S. that it showed "not a knowledge of science, but an ignorance of Latin...
...only degree--the ancient languages requirement has been supported on such inadequate grounds as the sentimental, "I took it and it did me good." But with an increasing and just emphasis on wider geographic representation in the college, the fact that many schools feel Latin and Greek is unnecessary as a preparation should indicate that an argument for the classics needs more in its support than a sentence in the catalogue...