Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Testament Church never used it, . . . God has abundantly answered the Biblical method of prayer. Is there any evidence that He prefers the recent innovation?" The Oxford and Webster dictionaries give preference to "ay-men," Webster stipulating that when sung it should be "ah." Stemming from the Hebrew through Greek, Latin, French and Old English, "amen" means "truly" or "verily"; "Be it so really!"; "It is so in truth"; "finis." Europeans and Russians all use the same word. Its liturgical use by congregations began in apostolic times. Jews and Mohammedans say amen. In Revelations it is used as a title...
With the decline of the emphasis put on Latin and Greek in the preparatory schools the Freshman has been increasingly prone to begin college with little or no knowledge of the Classics. If he then feels this gap in his knowledge and desires to remedy it, he discovers that in order to do so he must go through the lengthy process of learning Latin and Greek, must, in fact, devote a considerable portion of his college career to it. This, of course, is sufficient to deter most students, and cause them to fall back upon the unsatisfactory plan of attempting...
Obviously the ideal solution would be for the colleges to force the secondary schools to give a thorough training in Latin and Greek. But until this is done what is needed is a short cut, which would enable a man to get a good knowledge of the Classics within the confines of a single course. There is only one way in which this may be obtained; namely, by establishing a course in which the ancient authors would be given translation, thus eliminating the great time wasting factor. Such a course would naturally have as a basis the reading...
Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, of Boston, was elected captain of the Freshman football team yesterday afternoon. Bilodeau prepared at Boston Latin School and Exeter. At the Boston Latin School he was star quarterback and won a position on the All-Scholastic team. At Exeter he led the undefeated team of last season. This year he has contributed the entire scoring of the Freshmen in the first two games...
...said, "that the student should acquire a permanent command of at least one language as a tool of learning and a source of continued education and satisfaction. Colleges ought not to hide behind the abstractions of an admission system in terms of points, a system which encourages carrying Latin for four years and then dropping it, French for two or three years, and German for a little while...