Word: latine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been made to trace back the observance of class day to the very earliest years of the college, it is probable that the first exercises are directly due to an attempt made by the overseers in 1754 to improve the elocution of the students by requiring public recitation of Latin dialogues, or dialogues translated from the Latin into the English...
...senior class for a literary festival seems to date from 1760. Our list of annual orators does not begin until 1776, and it was not until 1786 that the poem was added. The first two orations (in 1776 and 1777) were in English, the third and fourth in Latin, and it was not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that the English language became generally used in the orations. The poems were about all English from the very first. In 1802 the faculty, fearing a gradual dying out of the Latin oration, prescribed the use of that language...
...preceded by the band playing solemn music. The president began with a short prayer. He then read a chapter in the Bible; after this he prayed again; Cutler then delivered his poem. Then the singing club, accompanied by the band, performed Williams' Friendship. This was succeeded by a valedictory Latin oration by Jackson. We then formed and waited on the government, (i. e., the faculty,) to the president's, where we were very respectably treated with wine, etc. We then marched in procession to Jackson's room, where we drank punch. At one we went to Mr. Moore's tavern...
...popularity of the classics is again shown by the number of men who received second year and final honors in this department this year. An unusually large number of men were successful this time, which goes to show that the study of Greek and Latin is not losing its hold, as has been claimed by its opponents, but on the contrary is becoming more and more popular every year. The result of the recent investigations in Germany has again shown to the world that for training the mind the study of Greek and Latin has as yet found no equal...
...College of Notre Dame challenges the claim of Michigan University to the honor of having first produced a Latin play in America. The former institution presented "The Captives" of Plautus three years...