Word: latine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor R. S. Conway, Hulme Professor of Latin In Victoria University, Manchester, England, and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University will give the first of his series of lectures on Virgil this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Its title will be "Man and Nature," and it will be given in Harvard Hall, Room...
...these days when the word Imperialism first begins to make its appearance in criticisms of the foreign policies of the United States, when the interest of the whole nation is focused on the Nicaraguan situation, on the Tacna-Anca problem, and on Mexico, and when the Latin-American nations seem to be arousing into an audible self-consciousness for the first time, everything concerning Latin-America is of interest. For this reason vagabonds, desiring to insure that completely rounded set of interests which admits them to the ranks of the intelligentsia and cognoscenti, will attend Professor Haring's lecture...
...Latin vespers' chant rose majestic and sonorous. Notre Dame seemed every moment less a church of man, and more the infinite, spacious House of God. Then Paul Claudel was suddenly upon his knees. . . . "Alors se produisit," he has said, "I'événement qui domine tout ana vie. This, of all my life, was the dominant moment. My heart was touched. Je crus-I believed! . . . Blinding, ineffable, had come the revelation. I had realized the heart-rending innocence, the eternal childhood...
...Paul Claudel a close friend has said: "His thoughts as he expresses them are extremely difficult to understand. ... He fashions words out of Latin and Greek roots, picks them out of all sorts of strange places, until you seem to be wafted on a bright, flying carpet woven all of butterflies...