Word: latine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ameis' Iliad, Books X. to XV., for Greek III, is ready. Also Cicero's Tusculanian Disputations for Latin...
...Preble, in Latin 2, has adopted the plan of adding extra marks for recitations. Any man once answering "not prepared," will not be called upon for the remainder of the year...
...younger instructors in Latin has announced that hereafter any man in his section who answers "not prepared" will not be called upon again during the remainder of the year. He also says that hereafter a certain mark will be given for work done in recitation. It is but a few weeks since a like pronunciamento was put forth by another and older instructor in the same department. This seems to us an entirely wrong principle to work on and a highly obnoxious one. To deprive a man of all chance of obtaining a certain mark for his study because...
...would do a great wrong. But the progress of discovery had opened new heavens and earths. Whole sets of new studies has grown into existence, and Harvard was endeavoring to accommodate the old standards of culture to the new conditions. There was no disposition to undervalue Greek and Latin. The only desire was in keeping the old to get the best...
...impetus given to the study of Latin by the application of the historical method and by the study of inscriptions, by Minton Warren...