Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor R. S. Conway, Professor of Latin, Visiting Lecturer at the University from Victoria University, Manchester, England, is giving a series of three lectures on Virgil in Room 1, Harvard Hall, at 4.30 o'clock, on the following dates...
...permitting Yale, North Carolina, Iowa, California, and so on, to influence the practical theatre arts of today, while Harvard goes happily back to a philological study of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, or awards a Ph. D. for a thesis about the influence of Latin Comedy on the plays of Ben Jonson. I vastly prefer Iowa, where you can get at least an A. M. for a first rate job of stage production. I think it is a good deal more important today to develop a Ben Jonson of our own than to pore endlessly over the works...
...more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor of his full canonicals. Vexed by "flagrant defiance," the Bishop boomed forth thunderous Latin phrases, formally excommunicated the three news-venders. A controversy raged...
...ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country, but not a great people. And everything was there to make America a great country, so God did it, not ourselves...
...action of the A. S. U. O. is reminiscent of the appeal to the press made by Mr. Coolidge on the first of January, in it the President urged that the gentlemen of the press cease to criticize the administration in its Latin-American policy, and condemned such action as injurious. The absurdity of such an attempt to muzzle the press was patent from the start...