Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colombes Stadium and the steeplechase at Auteuil, to the other extreme of the marvelous Italian Art exhibit, every moment was well planned. American Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus showed great interest in the experiment and also inquired about Harvard, his alma mater, being particularly concerned with the fate of the Latin requirement which was being very much discussed at the time...
...memory of Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, who died in Los Angeles on December 3, a service in Appleton Chapel will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
...teacher of the old school. Mr. Taft has always believed in making his boys work hard, giving them heavy doses of Latin and mathematics. Once some progressive educators were urging him to teach the boys to use their hands, specifically to put in a course in milking. "Why," demanded Mr. Taft. "should we teach them to do something which any calf can do better?" Last week he had a fling at the College Entrance Examination Board, currently tinkering feverishly with its tests in an effort to please progressive teachers. "You would think," observed the old headmaster, ''that...
Before he became Princeton's president. Dr. Dodds was forever making trips to Latin-American capitals. His first big job was straightening out Nicaragua's messy election system in 1922. In 1925 he was technical adviser to General Pershing on the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission. The Princeton Survey of the New Jersey State government was conducted by Dr. Dodds with 20 assistants...
...memory of the late Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, who died in California on Friday, December 3, a service will be held on Thursday in Appleton Chapel at four o'clock...