Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nineteenth Century, the establishment of July 4th as a national holiday and of Class Day as the time for a last fling sobered up Commencement Day considerably. Music, dancing, and the booths on the Common disappeared, and at the same time the actual exercises became less stiff. The one Latin, two Greek, and two Hebrew disputations gradually gave way to orations in English, the first of which was given in 1763 by Jedediah Huntington, a future Revolutionary War general...
DiMento, who delievered the Latin Oration, welcomed the audience, including the "pulchritudini Radclivanae" in the "Novo Aspectu," and cautioned his hearers and classmates to "separate good from evil and truth from falsehood," in the November elections...
Bernard, a 22-year old Senior, was an all-scholastic goalie for Baltimore's Boy's Latin and played for Johns Hopkins before coming to Harvard. He is one of three New England collegians who will play in the North-South game...
Buckley Scholarships are awarded to graduates of Latin, High, and other public non-sectarian schools in Cambridge; while Cambridge Scholarships go to aid "deserving young men from Cambridge schools at large...
These exercises followed the hallowed march (led by red-coated fife and drum corps) from Harvard Hall, where Arthur S. Pease '02, Pope Professor of Latin, was elected president of the society to succeed Ralph Lowell...