Word: latina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always agree with the administration. On April 21, 1961, the CRIMSON ran a small article on the bottom of its front page, innocently proclaiming "Lingua Latina Mortua Est." Less than one week later, several students gathered in front of Widener to hear an orator proclaim that Harvard should keep Latin diplomas even if the University became "the last light in a darkened world." Within three hours, more than 2000 students had participated in a riot which rivaled the proportions of the famed Pogo riot, complete with tear...
...austere scholars and the academic secretaries clicking away at their silent typewriters. He waited for another buzz and then took the bridge to Widener, re-entering the stacks at Level 1, where he took the elevator up beyond Level 6, beyond the Church History section and Migne's Patrologia Latina with its 200-odd volumes, finally exiting by special key on the third floor of Widener. Turning toward the map room, that library without a department, he moved on by the Archives to the main stairway...
...investigation of the conduct of foreign news agencies functioning in our country, in view of the dissemination by these agencies of baseless stories of sensationalist or alarming character." The order called for "energetic steps for definitive repression" if the charges were true. Fidel Castro's news agency, Prensa Latina, cheered the order. But the independent Jornal do Brasil saw it as a clear threat to a free press: "If the President thinks he is going to take the press by the throat, order investigations right and left, silence newspapers without resistance, he is very much mistaken...
...Bible disappeared. But countless ancient parchments, palimpsests* and books survived to challenge modern scholars with a complex task: to collect and compare early Bible texts with the standard Vulgate completed by St. Jerome in the first decade of the 5th century. The job is under way in the Vetus Latina (Ancient Latin) Institute of the Benedictine monastery of Beuron in southern Germany...
...Josef Denk, curate of a sleepy parish near Munich, who had spent most of his life in the reading room of the Bavarian State Library. Beuron's whole task probably cannot be completed before 2050. So far the institute has published 26 installments, covering if volumes of Vetus Latina's 35 books. By publishing the original Greek, the various early Latin translations, the St. Jerome Vulgate and thousands of footnotes, the work spreads 20 pages of Genesis...