Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LATIN 8.TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON...
WILL you kindly allow me space in your columns for a few remarks concerning the recent Mid-Year Examination in Latin...
...were translations from the author read, but their selection was purely arbitrary, and to expect one to load the memory with even a quarter of the innumerable idiomatic constructions in Plautus were an evident absurdity. Is it not, too, a somewhat novel idea that a thorough understanding of a Latin author is measured by ability to render an English version into the original, or the original into Greek...
...commotion at the top of the hill draws my attention that way; a huge, unwieldy double-runner is prepared, and various men skilled in Latin and Greek seat themselves upon it. At first they go swimmingly, the weight of the dead languages carrying them bravely down the hill, but unfortunately they are taking the course at sight; a hidden root - they know not whence it came - stumps them, and they are spilled out promiscuously...
...mind, for I feared that you were in danger of dismissal. Well, Fred, I won't detain you longer, your sisters are dying to know all about college; but before you go, here's a specimen of specie payments from me as a Detur for your good work in Latin and Greek...