Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contributions signed by graduates in this week's Alumni Bulletin are striking in the similarity of their criticism, tacit or explicit, of the broad general policy of the University at present. Three letters condemn utilitarianism that leads to the abolition of Latin as a requirement for an A.B. degree, while an article by Moses W. Ware '02, effectively points out how essential for even so "utilitarian" a field as business is the elusive quality of culture or balance which is the highest aim of a college education...
...Latin...
Milton is traditionally supposed to have been the great Puritan poet, but Belloc says the tradition is wrong: Milton was not a Puritan but a Unitarian. During his lifetime he shocked England by his turgid pamphleteering for divorce; at his death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there...
...quasi-criticism in the editorial provokes the memory of that instance in which Johnson, asked by Boswell whether or not he "really thought a knowledge of Greek and Latin an essential requisite to a good (sic) education," answered: "Most certainly, Sir; for those who know them have a very great advantage over those who do not. Nay, Sir, it is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with...