Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been appointed to succeed Mr. Greenough, but it is understood that Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, James T. Addison '09, professor of the History of Religions and Missions and one-time acting Master of Kirkland House, Clarence H. Haring '07, professor of Latin-American History and Economics and one-time acting Master of Kirkland House, Clarence H. Haring '07, professor of Latin-American History and Economics and one-time acting Master of Eliot House, and Carl J. Friedrich, associate professor of Government, have been prominently mentioned for the post...
...members of the English department, and the instructors in public speaking. Ten men will be selected to speak in the finals which will be held Wednesday, March 28. Competitors must be prepared to deliver a memorized selection of five to seven minutes in length. Deliveries may be in Latin, Greek, or English, but need not necessarily be taken from early writers and Professor Packard warns against choosing passages from such authors as Shakespeare because of the unsuccessful results in past years. Selections used in the final competition of the last three years may not be used this year...
...cheap restaurants of Manhattan's East Side. He discovered that although he did not know how to pronounce their names customers would pay 10? to hear him try. Then, after a brief career delivering eggs, he went to high school. His teachers were not impressed with his Latin. So Michael Jeremiah Devlet went to work as an errand boy in a bond house. At 16 he was earning $14 a week; at 17, only $5. But he had become a runner. Four years later, when he was a successful bond trader, the biggest and best known government bond house...
...resourceful professor hit upon the idea of making it a degree "with distinction" Instead of with the customary honors. The solution seemed to please everyone. Just as it was on the verge of being voted on, a classicist Interposed an objection. "You've got to translate it into Latin," he pointed out, "and when you translate 'with distinction' it becomes 'cum laude'." The faculty gave it up and decided to leave the name but change the requirements...
...Last spring trustees of Roxbury (Mass.) Latin School were on the hunt for a new headmaster. They decided to inspect Alumnus James Bryant Conant, invited him out for a speech. Professor Conant went, spoke. Roxbury trustees looked, listened, decided that Professor Conant, reserved, stiff-bodied, boyish-looking, with no jot of showmanship, no trace of "Harvard accent," definitely would not do. Few weeks later Professor Conant was elected president of Harvard...