Word: latine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...donor of the statue, Daniel C. French, the sculptor, the Rev. Dr. Ellis, Edward Everett Hale and a number of the trustees and overseers. The exercises were begun by the Glee Club, which was stationed in the gallery over the stage, and which sang a glee written in Latin with much expression. After a short prayer had been offered up by Edward Everett Hale, the Rev. George E. Ellis stepped forward and delivered the address. After the president, officers, students and alumni of Harvard College were recognized, he began by thanking the donor of the statue for the valuable...
...changes in the curriculum of freshman year have it seems, been a great success so far. There has been no great or unexpected rush either into or from any one department. About sixty men have dropped their Latin, about eighty their Greek, and about a hundred their mathematics. And these men are very evenly distributed, the two history courses open to them receiving the greatest number-about eighty each. This is all very pleasant, so far; history is a subject well suited to freshman year, and the instructors in Latin, Greek and Mathematics probably congratulate themselves on having...
...outside individual efforts" and would not at all weaken the necessity of a thorough study of the less popular course. This is the spirit of President Porter's reply, and it is an effort well calculated to provoke serious reflection and, perhaps, conviction. English is declared unequal "academically" with Latin and Greek. A thorough knowledge of the classics is declared necessary, while History and Political Economy and subjects akin to them are reserved for later reading. Modern languages and Science are given the preparatory schools as their proper sphere. Whether the conservative ideas of President Porter have been formulated into...
Members of Greek and Latin 1 and 3 will meet Prof. Greenough today at 12 in Sever...
...sophomore study, and the class will meet for instruction three hours weekly. The other regular work is a course of lectures, one each week, in Physics, during the first half year, and Chemistry during the second half. The following elective courses are to open to the freshmen. Latin, A, B, C, and D, corresponding to the old prescribed work for first year men. In Greek, five courses, A, B, C, D, and E, likewise made up from the old freshman Greek, with some slight additions. In German, to men who have passed an entrance examination in that subject, the regular...