Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caribbees. A sleek black peace ship, the Grace Liner Santa Clara, steamed southward toward ancient Lima, Peru, and the eighth Pan American Conference. Aboard were a distinguished U. S. delegation and its distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa Clara nosed into the locks of the Panama Canal, Cordell Hull debarked to pay tribute to Panama's President Juan Demostenes Arosemena. Delegate Alf M. Landon got off to pay non-partisan...
...first issue of "the Quarterly Journal of International Relations" makes its appearance. Though not officially connected with Harvard, it is a step-child of the "Harvard Guardian," its editors have all studied here, and the leading article is written by Clarence H. Haring '07, Robert, Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics...
...good-looking, dark-mustached youn man, Guglielmi has a Latin gaiety and ar outrageous load of self-effacing satire. Last week he was worried lest the gallery lose money on his show, even though Nelson Rockefeller had bought his Persistent Sea for $250. He attributed his love for his hobby, carpentry, to the fragrance of fresh wood, then added sweetly, "or maybe it's the Jesus...
...Cessante ratione, cessat ipsa lex" is a learned and Latin way of saying that when the reason for a law ceases to exist, the law itself dies with it. And to a distinguished professor up at the Law School, this little tag strikes at the very root of the legal system. In fact, it is reliably reported that this jurist injects the quotation at least four times into each of the profound and erudite dissertations he hurls at his disciples Mondays through Thursdays...
...Fridays and Saturdays. On those days, when there are always from one to twenty beautiful girls in the back of the hall, getting in shape for football or other athletic events, he indulges in brilliant cross-examination of his self-conscious wards. On Monday he is back at the Latin...