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...India as the paper's first foreign correspondent. Almost as an afterthought, the editor handed him "a present for the road" - a Polish translation of Herodotus' The Histories. For the next four decades, that book was the journalist's traveling companion through war, peace and journalism in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. As Kapuscinski writes in the newly published English translation of Travels with Herodotus, "I was quite consciously trying to learn the art of reportage, and Herodotus struck me as a valuable teacher...
...Latin Orator Charles J. McNamara '07 and English Orator Daniel J. Wilner '07 took the stage today in Tercentenary Theatre to impart advice onto their graduating classmates. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
Delivering the Latin Salutatory, McNamara compared the Harvard experience to that of a young Star Wars Jedi. In his speech, "Iohannes Harvard, Eques Iediensis"—"John Harvard, Jedi Knight"—McNamara reminded the audience of the friends and teachers who have groomed the Class of 2007, members of the "best Jedi Academy in the galaxy". As he stepped back from the microphone to show off a few of his real-life light-saber moves, McNamara said, in Latin, "Harvard University is giving us the Force...use your new weapons wisely, my fellow Luke Skywalkers...
...central Asia around 4000 B.C. and there is no proof of it in the written record, although linguists have reconstructed all aspects of its grammar by looking at languages that descended from this proto-language. Rau then uses this knowledge to study the history of the Greek and Latin languages, which are just two of the languages that descend from the Indo-European. He is the only faculty member with a core interest in this area, which he describes as “wonderful stuff, but highly obscure...
...Harvard’s first Commencement ceremony in 1642, the nine graduates proved their proficiency in three ancient tongues with Latin and Greek orations as well as a “Hebrew Analysis Grammatical, Logicall and Rhetoricall of the Psalms.” According to Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morrison, Class of 1908, the graduates and their guests retired to the mess hall at 11 a.m. for “plenty of good substantial food” washed down by barrels of the young College’s own beer. They then returned to the Yard for an afternoon...