Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an opening greeting by University Marshal Reginald T. Fitz '08, three students will deliver the traditional Commencement parts. Francis J. Dimento '48 will deliver the Latin Salutatory, "De Comitiis Proximis;" James Karens '48 the English Dissertation, on "An Attitude Towards Literature;" and Harold C. Passer '43 2G an oration on "The New Dollar Diplomacy...
...word that doesn't fit in that grouping is "liken," an Anglo-Saxon derivative. All the others . . . are formed from Latin roots...
Earlier in the week another political sirocco had blown through the Capitol. Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart read to his Senate colleagues excerpts from "Voice of America" broadcasts prepared for the State Department by the National Broadcasting Co. and beamed to Latin America last winter...
...campus corruption for home) have turned out to be everything from mechanics to insurance-company presidents. Girard has a "double curriculum." Every "newbie" (new boy) must try ten different trades, and then pick his favorite. Girard also teaches the standard grammar and high-school subjects, except for Latin and Greek, which Stephen Girard considered a waste of time...
...real gravy in the serial business comes from abroad. Serials flop in Britain, but they are regularly dubbed in French, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese. In Latin America and Spain, where the fans can't wait, whole serials are often run off at one sitting...