Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Latin is the heritage of the 'prep-schoolers...
Emma C. Cheuse '98 was more critical. She said the return to Latin would be very negative for students at Harvard, especially those who already felt disconnected from what she described as a "dominant culture...
...have to ask, 'what tradition are they trying to bring back?' What about students that don't speak Latin? They may already feel very disconnected from the University...what does it do to put their degrees in a language they can't even understand?" she said...
Eugenie A. Lang '00, board member of the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats, said, "It's true that this rings of a tradition of a time that had these problems," refering to allegations that using Latin would promote classism, elitism and racism...
...Latin] is not specifically classist or racist," she added. "We have lots of traditions at Harvard...this is one of them...