Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned men, I feel I have a very definite grievance as to that scrap of paper that I spent four years of toil to acquire. Let me quote from Professor Morison; "The signatures of this diploma (Mather's) are very interesting. First comes President Mather signed in his best Latin style, Crescentius Matherus". I look at the 1935 diploma before me. The signatures are far from interesting. They might be on a receipted bill or a squash court reservation, so informal are they: J. B. Conant, W. J. Bender...
...tenor of Fletcher Pratt's biography of the great Julius. Hail, Caesar!, an uncritical popularization like his informal history of the U. S. Civil War (Ordeal by Fire), is written with a slapdash chattiness that often sinks to sophomoric levels. In his laudable attempts to English the dead Latin facts, Author Pratt sometimes makes his English livelier than lucid: "He was disposed to hold grievance that the Senate had not protected him to point and edge, and a snarling shuttlecock of 'Your fault' began to grow up, which was interrupted by a message that plunged them...
...friends I made at Harvard was the man who translated the Odyssey next to me on a narrow bench in Sever Hall," smiled the poet. "I bad a passion for Latin and Greek when I was in college. Professor Morison to the contrary, I was not driven from Harvard by the daily theme requirement, as I took no English courses which required daily themes; to prove to you that I was a worker, however, I may say that I took voluntary composition courses in Greek and Latin...
Rehearsals are in progresss under the direction of Alan McN. G. Little, instructor in Greek and Latin, assisted by Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, and Charles T. Murphy '31, instructor in Greek and Latin...
...Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, April 15, 16, and 17, the Classical Club will present the Tercentenary Latin Play, the "Mostellaria" of Plautus at the Sanders Memorial Theatre. It will recall the early years of the College, when Latin textbooks, lectures, and conversations were a normal part of student life...