Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat register) which, produced in commercial quantities, made the night hideous by performing at any hour except the right one. They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their teacher, asked his favorite question, "Gerund or gerundive?" One day The Roman changed his question to "Pick out the first gerund...
...late James Cameron Mackenzie, who gave it one of the first U. S. "house plans." Lean years lay behind the school when Mather Almon Abbott took its headmastership in 1919. Halifax born and Oxford bred, "The Bott" had taught President Roosevelt at Groton, had been crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, was big, ruddy, firm-willed. At Lawrenceville he upped scholarship and enrollment, turned everybody out for sports, started rowing and polo, opened a Lower School for boys under 14, established scholarships for British boys. His biggest & best jobs were to put Lawrenceville on the map, raise funds...
...opening editorial in the number written by George L. Haskins '35, presents the ideals of the new board. This is followed by John A. Strauss' '36 "Education and the Flesh," an over-hauling of "traditional academic education." This article is attacked by Alston Chase, instructor in Greek and Latin, from the point of view of a teacher in "The World and the Faculty...
...upper common room of Adams House on Thursday, November 8 at 6.30 o'clock. Samuel E. Morison, Professor of History, will act as toastmaster. Guests of honor will be Jerome D. Greene, Secretary to the Corporation and Director of the Tercontenary, and Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin. Herbert M. Irwin, Jr. '37, President of the Society will set forth the aims and purposes of the society, and present the shingles to the members...
England's prolific Poet Laureate writes a rousing tale of a Latin American revolution, in which all the best parts are filled by Anglo-Saxon hearts...