Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth have been profoundly affected by Dr. Thorndike's facts. An old theory of learning was that certain subjects, particularly the classics, were especially useful for training the mind. Thorndike tried out this theory by experiment and found it did not work. His findings hastened the departure of Latin and Greek from school curricula...
...Ethiopian situation was a function of the rebirth of Germany," asserted the instructor. Always treated as the inferior Latin brothers of the French, Italy at first, in her desire to carve out a new "Roman Empire" in the Mediterranean, came into conflict with the German national expansion of similar character...
...State Senator, the members of the flying junket-Mrs. Enoch Wesley Frost of Arkansas, Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de Burke of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher of New York-left Hyde Park, N. Y. on October 30, with President Roosevelt's benediction, to exhort the Latin American nations into ratifying the Inter-American conference peace treaties (TIME...
...five conventions, two treaties and a protocol, arranging principally for consultative machinery to prevent war or provide unified Inter-American action in case war is forced upon any of the American republics-have reposed in official discard since their birth a year ago. Publicity given the flying caravan sent Latin American officials scurrying to drag out copies of the conventions. Informed by the U. S. diplomatic representative of the expected caravan visit, one Foreign Minister exclaimed: "My God! We had forgotten all about those treaties. I shall send them to Congress immediately...
Marvin came to Harvard from Groton where he received highest honors in English and French, and honors in Latin and Physics. he was a member of the baseball and tennis teams while there. Burwell is an Exeter graduate and a first honor student...