Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milman Parry, assistant professor Greek and Latin, died in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon as a result of an accidental shooting, according to were received last night...
From the cross country squad a formidable group of distance men is being gathered. Brayton, Gardner, and Olive should all place high in the 600 and 1000 yard runs. A. J. Hanlon, former Roxbury Latin half-miler, should also win a position, although he was not one of the three leaders in cross country this fall...
...devotion of its author. It is not, however, to be read by the running reader, even if he is a Harvard man interested, a little more than mildly but not intensely, in the history of a school which annually contributes about one-tenth of the Freshmen Class. Even the Latin School graduate, to whom much that is here will be familiar, will hardly summon up a remembrance of things past from his school-days, which now glow with all the romance natural to retrospection, for the book is learned and scholarly, as indeed it should be to justify its membership...
Nobody has ever stated these ideals better than Santayane, and Miss Holmes does well to use his tercentenary message for the epigraph of her first chapter. Indeed, Santayane's words give the essence of the Latin School spirit: 'In spite of all revolutions and all the pressure of business and all the powerful influences inclining America to live in contemptuous ignorance of the rest of the world, and especially of the past, the Latin School, supported by the people of Boston, has kept the embers of traditional learning alive, at which the humblest rush-light might be lighted; has kept...
...tercentenary historian of the school which dandled Harvard College on its knee. There are some omissions, however, which call for notice here. One fails to see any mention of Sir Thomas Downing, for whom Downing-street is named; tradition, at any rate, has always associated his name with the Latin School. It is a curious fact, which one may offer for what it is worth, that although the Latin School has graduated many men more distinguished than most presidents, it has never produced a President of the United States...