Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competitors are asked to prepare a memorized selection between five and seven minutes in length, chosen from any work of standard literature, either prose of fiction. Although for quite a number of years all selections chosen have been in English, Greek or Latin passages are also acceptable...
...English language in the College Yard was prohibited for almost half a century after Harvard was founded in 1636, according to Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Professor of History. Latin was used in all textbooks and lectures, but if one preferred, he could converse in Greek or Hebrew...
Sirs: I won a scholarship at "Miss Spence's School for Girls" [TIME, Feb. 3] and was educated there from 1910-17. After graduating I went back to teach Latin, English and History, thereby paying for my tuition at "swankless" Barnard...
With the most lavish and expensive swimming pool in any Caribbean country and with one of the best layouts for daytime sport and moon-drenched romantic evenings in Latin America, "Father Snare" still busies himself with earnest works appropriate to one who last week celebrated his Silver Jubilee. Few caddies are so pious as his. Smart Cuban lads, placed under the strict guidance of three Roman Catholic priests and educated in English and arts & crafts in the Club's school, these Greensward Sons of "Father Snare" never tire of hailing his greatest greens feat. Last year on his 72nd...
...dead man's concubine, who said she had "murdered four little ones." Finally there were Beelzebub and hordes of imps who seemed to leave and reenter the energumen's body. The voices of all the demons issued from her mouth, with varying intonation, in English, German and Latin...