Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...topics discussed at yesterday's Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) meeting ranged from Latin diplomas to textbooks to CUE guide questions...
...members voted to forward an Undergraduate Council bill for Latin diplomas to the Faculty Council for its consideration...
...council bill, which was signed by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, reinstated Latin as the official language for diplomas...
Eric M. Nelson '99 co-sponsored the bill in the council. He cited tradition as the reason for returning to Latin diplomas...
Consilience, whose title comes from two Latin words meaning "leaping together," continues the tradition of the scientist as crusader of enlightenment. Wilson's prime targets for conversion are liberal-arts academics and social philosophers who have built careers on internal intellectual constructs rather than objective evidence. His cutting-edge appraisals are particularly bad news for psychoanalysts and New Agers. "The brain," he proclaims, "is a machine assembled not to understand itself, but to survive...