Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book like this has been long overdue. Needless to say, it is timely, for the Latin School celebrated its tercentenary last April, and a school which has 'the distinction and fame of being the oldest "free", public, non-endowed, non-sectarian secondary school with continuous existence in the United States is certainly worthy of attention as the ancestor in some degree of relationship of Groton as well as of the High School at Sauk Center, Minnesota. The qualifications which Miss Holmes makes are necessary because there are several claimants for the honor of being our oldest secondary school. She disposes...
...private papers of Samuel Gilman 1811, later D.D., there is a very illuminating exposition of the undergraduate mind. The good Dr. Gilman formulated the following catechism while pursuing his Greek and Latin for four long years...
...congregation in Boston" at twenty-one, and ultimately president of Harvard, was the first American to earn the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Germany. His studies in his second year at Goettingen he lists as Roman Law, Archacology, Ciccro's de Oratore, Greek syntax and meters, Greek and Latin Composition, Latin conversation, French, and Italian, Riding and dancing, he adds, are "pursued at odd intervals." Yet, he says, "All the students here who pass for diligent hear far more lecturing than I. Cogswell hears 8 courses daily." We see George Bancroft, fresh from college, sent by the Harvard Corporation...
Bunker, who was editor-in-chief of the Roxbury Latin Tripod last year, will have complete charge of the publication of the year book, which comes out the day of the Jubilee...
Bunker entered Harvard with highest honors, and was immediately permitted to take advanced courses. At Roxbury Latin, he was football manager, a member of the Student Council, and one of the leading characters in the school plays...