Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Soucy '16, No. 7, of Boston, prepared at Boston Latin. He rowed on his Freshman crew, is 21 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, and weighs 176 pounds...
...addition three new degrees with distinction have been announced. The first of these is a degree in Classics and Philosophy, requiring eight courses, of which five are to be in the Department of the Classics (both Greek and Latin) and three in the Department of Philosophy, and a thesis on a subject connecting ancient and modern philosophical thought. A special examination of some character will also be required...
...third is in Classics and Economics requiring five courses in the Department of the Classics (both Greek and Latin) and three in the Department of Economics, a thesis connecting ancient and modern theory or history, and a special examination...
...teaching of the classic languages nowadays is merely the result of a heritage, a tradition, begun back in mediaeval times, when what teaching there was existed in church schools only, in which Latin was the official languages. We all know what it meant, some centuries ago, to have even the slightest education. If a man could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon...
...centuries passed schools slipped from the control of the Church, and benefit of clergy was no more. But no people cling to tradition and custom as do schoolmen the world over. And so Latin, and Greek too, for that matter, remained a basic part of the usual school curriculum. And now some disrespectful and doubting inquirer stands up and asks why it is that children should spend so large a fraction of their whole school time in the technical study of languages that have been dead and buried these many years. Immediately there is a great hunting for reasons...