Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Philip Emerson '50 of Winthrop House received two awards of $100 each for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and for a translation into Latin of a passage from John Ruskin's "The Crown of Wild Olive...
Theodore Woodland Wells '48 of Melrose received honorable mention for a Latin translation of a passage from the same work...
...those who don't speak Latin fluently but don't want to miss some of the subtleties in the Classics Club's "Miles Gloriosus," which opens Friday, Maurice R. Snowden, instructor in Classics, will offer an explanatory talk on the play at 8 p.m. tonight in Leverett Junior Common Room...
...Latin Players have planned the talk to give those who intend to go to the play just to see lovely damsels in sheets a chance to grasp the real meat of the Plautus comedy...
...apartment on 97th Street just off Riverside Drive. Their friends, who dropped in for informal Sunday-night literary sessions, included Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Captain George (now Sir Hubert) Wilkins, Poets Constance Lindsay Skinner, Sara Teasdale, Horace Gregory; literary critic-to-be Lewis Gannett; Author and Geographer Earl Parker Hanson; Latin celebrities like the painter Zuloaga and famed Bullfighter Juan Belmonte...