Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interscholastic team is made up of stars from Greater Boston high schools and lost last week to the six representing the Catholic High School of Montreal. Several captains are on the roster of the team but five of the first-string six are members of the Cambridge Latin School team...
With the meeting of the Board of Overseers this afternoon it is believed probable that the appointment of Clarence H. Haring '07, professor of Latin American History and Economics to the Mastership of Dunster House will be confirmed by the Board...
...where the man in the street goes wrong. It was decided by historians, he says, that the college dates from the time of the first official charter or action. In a footnote to his history of the University now in preparation, he says, "Colleges of the British Isles and Latin America date their foundation from the first charter, papal bull or formal act authorizing the institution; for it is nearly impossible to ascertain the dates of breaking ground for the first building or of first receiving scholars...
Harvard has remained notably aloof from the experimentation with entrance requirements which has been going on among most first-class American colleges. It continues to place heavy reliance on the College Board examinations, and to demand Latin or Greek as a prerequisite for the A.B. degree. This does not mean, however, that Harvard has had any greater success with the old admissions criteria than have other colleges. Recent surveys have revealed a disquieting discrepancy between grades on entrance examinations and subsequent records. No admissions criteria can be wholly successful which allow an opportunity for intensive cramming by schools whose curricula...
Armando Zegri, noted Chilean author, will talk on "What is a Latin American?" in Emerson 211 at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon...