Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be awarded on March 27 following a competition open to upperclassmen of good standing, it was announced yesterday by Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking. Competitors will deliver memorized selections of five to seven minutes' length taken from standard poetry or prose in English, Latin, or Greek...
...years the status of the S.B. degree has been absurb. . . . A reformation in the requirements for the A.B. degree (omission of Latin) would enable the Faculty to restrict the S.B. degree to these concentrating in science and thus end the present rather ridiculous situation...
Little Costa Rica is unique in having the biggest proportion of pure-blooded Spaniards, the most peaceful history, the smallest army budget, one of the oldest constitutions and biggest school budgets in Latin America. No less remarkable is Costa Rica's President, Ricardo ("Don Ricardo") Jiménez y Oreamuno, 75, son & grandson of Costa Rican Presidents, three times President himself and year in & year out the most popular man in the country. Once he bailed out a man who had defamed him, saying: "Let no one be imprisoned for anything he may say about...
...floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...rich ideas were spent. But modernists have continued to watch him closely, for even in his "classicism" his rules have been his own. He wrote Les Noces for percussion, pianos and chorus. For Oedipus Rex, his "operaoratorio," the Greek story was adapted by Frenchman Jean Cocteau, then translated into Latin. When Stokowski gave it in Philadelphia the soloists were represented by 15-foot puppets (TIME, April...