Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resisting pressures to make Willie an auto salesman in "the time gained by ignorance of Latin": "We are not vocational institutions [and] have no reason for undertaking to be. . . . When one turns to esthetic education I think most of us will have to admit our schools are still barbarous. . . . We have lost a great deal of ground since the 17th Century in the disappearance of the esthetic side...
...second time in a month, Eduardo Marquina, official representative for the France government in Latin America, has been introduced to students only to watch vacantly while a large section of his would-be listeners stomped angrily form the room...
Boasting one of the largest squads on the field yesterday and styling them selves the dark horses of the coming campaign were the Funsters of Dunster House, under the tutelage of Adam Elcewicz, fomer Fordham player and coach of the Cambridge High and Latin School...
...Thorne and may develop into a powerful club. Adams, Winthrop, and Dudley were hindered seriously by inadequate turn-outs, and coaches Bill Nolan, former Oberlin end and halfback, Winton Bigwood, onetime Harvard gridder, and Frank Frisoli, Crimson player before he took over a coaching job at Cambridge High and Latin, will have to go into their respective Houses to seek additional talent if they plan to field a formidable team on opening...
...fact that Miss Williams and Johnson sing and dance in "Easy to Wed." Both are competent, neither will crash the Crosby-Astaire zone. The better of their two dances is accompanied by Ethel Smith on her organ, while the other has Carlos Ramirez following them around and breathing Latin love lyrics down their neeks...