Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having insulted most of Latin America and slapped the face of Britain's George V, the Senate Committee investigating the Munitions Industry hurriedly rang down its curtain amid great diplomatic confusion last September (TIME, Oct. 1). Well knowing that the U. S. munitions business was small fry compared to the foreign business, the Senators headed by North Dakota's Nye were not ready, however, to abandon such a popular subject. Last week, therefore, they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack. Their purpose was to avoid international complications and confine their efforts to getting something...
...Boston Latin retained its position at the head of the list, with 40 men receiving honors. Exeter Academy was second, 16 men winning honors; while Andover Academy had 12 men in the honor group, and Milton Academy had 11 honor winners...
Other schools-had the following numbers: St. Paul's, 7; St. Mark's, 6; Brookline High, 5; Catalina Island, 4; Fieldston, 4; Groton, 4; Choate, 3; Cranbrook, 3; Hopkins Grammar, 3; Roxbury Latin, 3; Belmont High, 2; Moses Brown, 2; John Burroughs, 2; Country Day, 2; Haverford, 2; Loomis, 2; Newton High, 2; Noble and Greenough, 2; St. George's, 2; University...
...knowledge of Latin as the sole distinction between the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science degrees is no longer applicable or even sensible in a modern university. For the average man science includes such subjects as Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, and a Bachelor of Science degree should be awarded on the basis of four years study of those subjects...
...under the system now in effect. The man who receives the B.S. degree is not the man who has passed a full academic course in laboratory work, but rather one who has concentrated in any field the College officers but who has omitted the study of Latin. He is often regarded as a second-rate product, a man who was just not good enough to get an A.B. Anyone who feels even the slightest respect for the work done at this College in such subjects as organic chemistry or geology, cannot but wonder at the fatuous regulation which, grants...