Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earnest Classicists and sentimental conservatives have combined in decrying President Conant's proposed elimination of the Latin requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree. The first of these groups advances several excellent arguments to prove the value of a knowledge of Latin; the second propounds sonorous platitudes concerning "the badge of culture" and "the heritage of the ages." Since sentimentalists, concerned always with preserving some golden age that has had its existence only in their imaginations, are impervious to logic, supporters of Mr. Conant's proposal must turn their attention to the sincere students of the Classics...
Herbert Jennings Rose, professor of Greek at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has been appointed Lecturer on Latin at Harvard for the first half of 1935-36. He was educated at McGill and Oxford, and has written numerous books on classical subjects...
...commemoration of the two thousandth birthday of the Latin poet, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin will give a lecture entitled "Horace" today at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. This talk is the second in a series of Lectures on Great Authors...
...large group of those answering the questionnaire, besides desiring to abolish elementary rules, asked for a further liberalization to permit a free choice of a reading knowledge in any two languages as the means of satisfying the regulations. Most rated modern languages as more important than Latin and Greek, and quite a few were indignant at the present position assigned to Spanish and Italian...
Gathering momentum slowly, the Harvard Freshmen yesterday defeated the Cambridge Latin School hockey team 2-1 in the Arena. This gives the Crimson a total of 120 points against 9 for their opponents so far this season...