Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University in giving advanced or semi-collegiate instruction to their highest-ranking men. These men will be allowed to take an advanced College Entrance Board examination, representing at least four years of work, (except in the case of Greek) in two of the following: French 4, German 4, Latin 4, Greek 3, and Mathematics Gamma...
Edward K. Rand to prepare for publication certain Latin writings particularly an edition of Servius' "Commentary" on Vergil; Hyder E. Rollins to prepare for publication a variorum edition of Shakespeare's poems; Donald Scott for the field expenses of Dr. Gordon T. Bowles to cooperate with the Division of Anthropology in an expedition to southwest China to study the physical anthropology of the peoples along the Tibetan border...
...meeting which followed in Eliot House, John H. Finley, instructor in Greek and Latin; Saunders MacLane, Benjamin Peirce Instructor in Mathematics; and George S. Franklin, Jr., '36, were speakers. Certain aspects of the tutorial work and the plan of joint conferences as employed in Eliot House were discussed...
Died. Alfred Edward Housman, 77, famed English poet; in Cambridge, England. Known to his University as a typical don. prim, silent, conventional, learned; to scholars for his masterly editing of minor Latin Poets (Manilius. Juvenal, Lucan) and his blasting criticisms of slipshod predecessors; he was known to the world for his two thin books of verse. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. Published 26 years apart, their lucid pessimism and classic simplicity made him one of the most popular, most quotable poets of modern times. A stoical poet who wrote his verse as a bitter antidote to the poison...
Alfred James Hanlon, Jr. '29 was elected Freshman track captain. He prepared at Roxbury Latin School...