Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malta-Another hammer stroke of British policy last week was dealt on the Island of Malta whose predominantly Latin-Levantine-blooded citizens in 1921 were given full Responsible Government with their own Constitution and freely elected Legislative Assembly. Some of these swarthy British subjects have since shown for Italy a preference so marked that tension in Malta was extreme while Stanley Baldwin was pressing on with "Sanctions" against Benito Mussolini. Last week the Malta Constitution was abolished by His Majesty's Government, Malta was dropped from Responsible Government to the status of a Crown Colony in which the British...
...Marshal will then call for the invocation, which will be delivered by Dean Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers. Professor Edward Kennard Rand will next be called upon for a Latin Oration of welcome. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Historian of the University, will make a brief recital of the events constitution the founding of Harvard College, beginning with the vote of the General Court, and ending with the Charter...
...names of their preparatory schools, are: Henry F. Allen, of Boston, Mass., St. Mark's School; Jack D. Andrews, of St. Paul, Minn., University of Minnesota High School; Richard R. Beatty, Jr., of Kansas City, Mo., Junior College of Kansas City; Harold Brown, of Dorchester, Mass., Boston Latin School; Robert M. Bunker, of West Roxbury, Mass., Roxbury Latin School; John J. Carchia, of Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge High and Latin School; Lawrence F. Ebb, of Dorchester, Mass., Boston Latin School; Karl F. Guthe, Ann. Arbor, Mich, University of Michigan High School; Irving M. London, of Malden, Mass., Malden High School; Richard...
...didactic Webster Blue Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's farm, did not go to school until he was 16. When Father McGuffey hacked a five-mile road through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated for the ministry. Passing on horseback, Rev. Thomas Hughes heard her prayer, offered to take the lad free to his Old Stone School at nearby Darlington. William worked...
...Government's arming of a "Red militia" of workers was what definitely took this week's revolt out of the traditional formula of Latin coups d'état and put it into the class of Russia's revolution of 1917. Last week 6,000 tough Asturian miners marched down from the North to Madrid's assistance, as the Army rebels marched up from the South. Declared the Spanish Government: "Spanish citizens! The movement in insurrection has been subjugated absolutely and it is necessary not to lose the fight...