Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the University lacrosse squad yesterday, Joseph Daniels Hale '19 of South Boston was elected captain. He prepared at the Boston Latin School and was captain of his Freshman lacrosse team, the last team to play until the present season...
...have read with interest a delightfully cartooned article with a Latin title, which bore the signature "John Gallishaw" and appeared in the recent issue of the Harvard Magazine (White). It seems to be fashionable lately to cast aspersions on Senator Lodge. "Wily, plausible, insincere" he is called by our dean. Anything so vital as the proposed League of Nations must inevitably arouse considerable feeling, but is it not somewhat hasty to impugn suddenly shallowness to a man who has hitherto been accredited with sincerity if nothing else. The Latin heading ("She transit gloria Lodge") itself shows that Mr. Gallishaw once...
Today is the last opportunity for candidates for the Boylston Prizes in Election to report. The competition is open to members of the Junior and Senior classes, and will consist of the recitation of selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors, each selection to be approximately five minutes in length. All men who intend to compete should see Professor Baker in Lower Massachusetts between 3 and 5 o'clock today to register and make preliminary arrangements as to subjects...
According to the terms of the award the students speak, not their own compositions, but selections from English, Greek, or Latin authors; the proportion in English is to be at least two out of three. There are two first prizes of $30 and three second prizes of $20 each...
...many Greek is no longer necessary to an appreciation of contemporary problems. Translations answer the purpose well. This innovation seems to be in harmony with our times. In like manner, Yale's move will open her doors to many more students. But is Yale going too far? Is not Latin so closely bound to our language and those of the European continent that a knowledge of it is essential to an understanding of modern speech? Can the mental training derived from the study of Latin in preparatory schools be substituted by any other course? This innovation may remove Yale from...