Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of alumni is campaigning to obtain funds for a chair in Latin American history. "We hope to have the permanent professorship by September, 1960," Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, disclosed yesterday...
...visiting professor from Vassar, will instruct three courses in the area. Griffin, who will begin a year at the University in the Fall, will fill a void due to the departure last spring of Thomas F. McGann '41. McGann taught four courses that comprised the entire offering in Latin American history...
Applications for graduate and under-graduate speakers at Commencement will be accepted until April 10 by Cedrie H. Whitman, associate professor of Greek and Latin. Written drafts of the speeches. which should not be over six minutes in length, should be submitted at 14 Holyoke House. This year the Houses are planning to nominate members to participate in the traditional contest...
Some such U.S.-backed system of upholding coffee prices has long been the dream of Latin America's coffee-based nations,* but the U.S. has shied away from coffee price supports as a nightmare just as dreadful as grain supports in the U.S. Lately, the U.S. has come to realize that quotas might stabilize the market, and prices as well, at no cost to the U.S. Treasury. In practice, the arrangement would work like the long-successful sugar quota system, which guarantees producing nations specific shares of U.S. sugar imports each year. By assigning each coffee country a sure...
...Pope can be counted on to bless anything, from a new U.S. helicopter (the first aircraft ever to land in the Vatican) to a crowd of bicycle racers departing for Sardinia. In his Latin blessing of the "helicopterum," he asked God to "grant that in the same way it rises into ethereal spaces, our minds be elevated toward celestial things and be united by ties of charity." And he advised the cyclists: "When you get to Cagliari, tell the Madonna of Bonaria that the Pope sent you, and she will bless Italy, you and your families...