Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles Ravenel, Democratic nominee for governor of South Carolina in 1974, and the U.S. Senate in 1978, is the first class marshal for the Class of 1961. response to the switch from Latin to Englishdiplomas. We protested becoming modern. Itwas a paean to liturgy...
...spring of 1961, the big issue on campus incited more than 4000 students to riot and brought out the Cambridge police with tear gas bombs. But the two-day long protest was against changing the diplomas from Latin to English; the real-world problems of civil rights and military involvement raged with nary a mention in the Yard. News of Freedom Rider arrests, fighting in Laos, and arms control was virtually ignored as the class concentrated on achieving an unprecedented number of honors degrees...
...line in the face of Cambridge police. They blocked traffic on Memorial Drive and hurled firecrackers and eggs. The police retaliated with tear gas and made six arrests. Luckily, someone was on hand to supply the vicious mob with ice cream cones. All in the name of Latin diplomas...
When Kennedy bolstered the nation's involvementin Latin American affairs, Herr decided to involvehimself in the inner workings of policy. "I hopedI could make some difference if I got ingovernment and changed policy by working aroundthe edges...
...life for a moment I realized now would never come--the time it would be my turn to be seen as I truly was." He glances at the holiday turkey, "which was draped in a butter-soaked dish towel and sat on the oven rack like a Latin American dictator in a sauna...