Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most romantic of all, however, are the trap door, the secret between-floors passage and the hidden room which date back to the 1800's and Professor of Latin Charles Beck. Beck, it seems, was an ardent abolitionist. It appears that he had these devices constructed for the Underground Railway. The trapdoor leads to a secret chamber at the end of which a laddered well descends to the basement. During the twenties this apparatus constituted great fun and games for freshmen and section men who used to climb up an down the shaft. Unfortunately, the passage was subsequently boarded...
...lower level Humanities course, "centering around drama in a broad sense," will be offered next year by the Committee on General Education, it was learned yesterday. William Alfred, assistant professor of English, and Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Greek and Latin, will lecture...
Scheduled topics range from "Will Alliances Keep the Peace?" and "Are We Realistic about Communist Powers?" to "A 'Better Neighbor' Policy in Latin America?" and "Peace in the Middle East--Whose Job?" Events during the week will be both announced forums and impromptu discussions...
...billion foreign aid appropriation. As much as it dramatized Communism's infiltration of strategic, oil-rich Venezuela, the mobbing of Vice President Nixon in Caracas (TIME, May 26) underlined the urgent need for U.S. help for orderly economic growth in the hemisphere. Needed in Latin America, Asia and Africa alike was a new climate of incentive plans to lure more private-enterprise experts, more private-venture capital...
...operations. The economy recovered its health; the vexed question of racial integration lay unsolved beneath the surface, but did not erupt into violence. A nation's youth went hula-hooping its uncomplicated way, and science, medicine and industry explored new breakthroughs. But the stones cast at Richard Nixon in Latin America and the Democratic sweep in the congressional elections made manifest a widespread discontent with U.S. policy, foreign and domestic...