Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conception of Greek, Latin, and Mathematics as the essentials of knowledge is almost completely contrary to the new, he said. The club also heard a letter from one of its alumni Paul Vories McNutt, Governor of the Philippines...
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...George Gershwin of France's Second Empire was mutton-chop-whiskered Jacques Offenbach. Stuffy politicians, high-toned artists, bombastic literati winced at his satirical songs. All Paris, from the Empress Eugénie to the trollops of the Quartier Latin gobbled up his tunes as fast as they came. He wrote nearly 100 operettas, which drew delighted applause in every pleasure-loving city from St. Petersburg to New Orleans...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, was honorary judge, and Vernon H. Struck, Senior class second marshal, presided over the program. Judges for the competition were John H. Finley, Jr. '25, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, Gustavus H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English, emeritus, Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, emeritus, Joseph R. Hamlen '04, and the Hon. Eliot Wadsworth...
Although the competition rules specify that orations may be in Latin, or Greek, Gordon M. Messing '38, who delivered excerpts from "De Rerum Natura," by Lucretius, was the only contestant who did not choose a selection in English...