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...siblings, followed his father to Boston in 1875, when Berenson was 10 years old. He was a precocious child who could read German by the age of three and was already well-versed in authors of the Romantic period by the time he was 12. After graduating from Boston Latin School, Berenson attended Boston University for one year before transferring to Harvard in order to study Sanskrit, which Boston University did not offer. At Harvard, Berenson studied art history under Charles Eliot Norton and wrote literary essays for the Harvard Monthly, of which he was elected editor-in-chief...
...very sharp eye for pomposity and mendacity and pretense,” said John Womack ’59, Professor of Latin-American History and Economics. “He has a very friendly but sharp way of making it clear that stuff like that is laughable...
...against Cuba. Travel restrictions also hinder the exchange of ideas and cultures between citizens of the two nations. AN ACADEMIC EXCEPTIONAlthough Americans are not permitted to freely enter Cuba, Harvard students are. Despite hostile foreign policies that the United States still holds towards Cuba, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is nevertheless committed to fostering academic exchange with Cuban institutions. The Cuban Studies Program, established in 1999, strives to bring together faculty and students who study Cuba, to assist Cuban scholars and scientists, and to strengthen institutional bonds of study. According to Lybia M. Rivera, Cuba Program...
English is a voracious melting pot of a language. It's basically what the Anglo-Saxons brought over from the mainland to the British Isles. Then that was overlaid with Latin, because the British Isles were conquered by the Romans and converted to Christianity. Then the French conquered the island in 1066, so French was the official language in England for 300 years. With the Renaissance came a big influx of more Latin words. You had the Scientific Revolution, so you had a big influx of Greek words. Then with colonialism, the language started taking words from everywhere...
...wrote to the spelling bee and said, You know, I won in 1980, and in the 10 years between, I've learned a lot more French, German, Latin and Greek, and I was wondering if you could use some help from somebody like me. And at that point, they just happened to have a need. So I got in there as associate pronouncer, and that job is basically just making sure that everything the pronouncer says is right. It was a pretty easy job because [predecessor Alex J. Cameron] was good. Every once in a while I would just kind...