Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acres in the Berkshires near Williamstown, Mass., called the place Mount Hope, has spent much of his time there ever since. He became a world authority on potato growing, experimented with corn from South America, bees, poultry, finally and most importantly with cattle. Able to converse fluently in Latin, he made his three children learn to speak it, and visitors occasionally heard the tots deliver bulletins on the day's egg output in the sonorous language of Cicero. Today there are 1,500 acres around the 220-ft.-long house at Mount Hope and the tax assessment...
...Spanish festival lasted four days. Pedro Mendieta, nephew of Cuba's President, elbowed his way through the brightly-costumed crowds to the pavilions where Tampa's four Latin nightclubs put on shows until 3 in the morning. In a public wedding one Carl H. Burg, dressed as a Spanish caballero, was married to one Margaret E. Clark, clad in a wedding gown of tobacco leaves. A Cuban girl named Pilar Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less...
...Horowitz and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who have learned to play as Brahms intended, not with a show of fireworks, but as if their instruments belonged in the orchestra. The German Requiem will offer proof of Brahms' simplicity. Bach was a Lutheran but for his great mass he chose the Latin of the Catholic liturgy. The Protestant Brahms chose a homely, Biblical text and his words are German...
...arguments of this fraternity imply that the present requirement is in fact a significant one. This presupposition, however, is not justified. Since three years of secondary school Latin or its equivalent in college Latin or in Greek is required for the A.B. degree, those who have not studied the Classics to this extent simply content themselves with an S.B., regardless of their fields of concentration. A regulation that produces such terminological monsters as the Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts or Music can hardly be justified without recourse to emotionalism. More serious than this perversion is the fact that...
...Classicist, then, should distinguish between encouraging the study of Latin and Greek and supporting a regulation that serves simply to destroy the meaning of the Harvard science degree. Subjects that retain significance and vitality in relation to modern life should be able to attract students through their intrinsic value, without requiring the artificial support of requirements. If the present rules did force uninterested students to gain a perfunctory knowledge of a classical language, their value would be doubtful; since they do not accomplish even this, they are indefensible...