Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While other nations bicker with each other across the Atlantic, the United States is busy untangling a delicate problem in the Western Hemisphere. At the Montevideo conference which began Sunday, Secretary of State Cordel Hull has as his purpose not only the establishment of amicable relationships among the Latin American countries, but the revival of a Pan-American Trade Union, once mutually beneficial, but which has in the last decade been allowed to die a lingering death...
...unjustified distrust of this country as the "Colossus of the North," but it can also be attributed to sober economic causes. Constantly rising tariff walls, some necessary for the protection of United States industry and some purely arbitrary, have served to shunt an unwonted amount of Latin American commerce into European ports. The present difficulty of getting foreign monetary exchange, due to the instability of the dollar, is the immediate cause of an almost complete paralysis of trade with the countries below the Equator...
Promised the Havana post at the first shuffle of the New Deal.'Diplomat Caffery is quite as experienced a Career Man as his predecessor. Service has taken him from Caracas to Stockholm, from Teheran to Tokyo, from Berlin to Bogota. He can cope effectively with the Latin American mind...
...first result of such a change would be to include as candidates for the A.B. degree all whose concentration was in the liberal arts, with no stasis occasioned by the knowledge or ignorance of Latin. This would enhance the prestige of the S.B. degree by removing from candidacy all leftovers from the arts, and limit it to those whose concentration has been in a laboratory science. At the present time, the majority of officers in scientific departments believe that a competent knowledge of both French and German is essential to their concentration. Accordingly, candidates for the S.B. degree should...
...candidates for the A.B. degree should be examined upon entrance for a knowledge of the grammar and literature of Latin. There are admittedly fields of study in the liberal arts where Latin is of no immediate advantage. But there are many departments, such as English and the Romance Languages, in which its importance cannot be ignored, and surely it is a handicap in none of them. More significant, however, is the value of Latin as a means to mental training in the secondary schools. No readier index exists to the quality of a secondary school preparing for a liberal arts...