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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bowdoin Prize Competition, open to all resident students of the University, for dissertations in English, Greek and Latin was announced recently by Professor G. H. Maynadier '89 and Professor C. R. Post '04. The prizes are made up from the income of the request of Governor James Bowdoin who graduated from the University in 1745 and increased by G. S. Bowdoin. It offers nine prizes, five of these being for undergraduates who do not hold an academic degree or have not fulfilled the requirements therefor, and also for other candidates of A. B. or S. B. in the University...
...Greek which the writer pointed out as constituting the curriculum at Harvard constitutes at the same time my sole instruction in that department as an undergraduate. The Yale News was probably not aware of the fast that this frugal array of courses, combined with a corresponding number of Latin courses, and a couple of courses in ancient history, and the necessary intelligence in wielding the facts contained therein leads occasionally to a degree summa cum laudte Now the truth is out. And yet I suspect that had I not been fortunate enough to present three years of Greek upon entrance...
Under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club, Professor Alexander Souter, Professor of Latin at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the British Academy, will lecture this evening at 8 o'clock on "Saint Augustine" in the Old Fogg Museum, at a meeting open to the public. Professor Souter, is a noted classicist and authority on the Bible...
...GENGHIS KHAN" has all the appurtenances of a genuine history book. Not only has it a Latin quotation prefixed to it but it has also a whole separate section of notes and a very full bibliography. It has managed, however, to escape the customary heavy historical style and reads suspiciously like a historical novel rather than a genuine history. And Mr. Lamb has seen fit to omit substantiating footnotes...
There are, of course, two alternatives for the student who wants his classics uncut and in the original bottles. He can either get hold of a costly complete translation or he can read them is the Latin or Greek. The latter is much to be desired, but often impossible, but either is better than to be led into believing that na incomparable literary masterpiece is such sour dishwater as the present offering of Messrs.. Boni and Live right...