Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classical scholarship which he has been pointed at since he was fourteen or fifteen. He has been brought to the point at which he could read the most difficult Latin and Greek literature at sight in large quantities. He is a thorough master of two grammars and to a surprising degree this knowledge has been reduced to illuminating principles of language structure which make the later attack on German, French and Italian much easier for him. And naturally French and Italian are easy when approached with a first class Latin vocabulary, while many of the compounds in German are made...
...university. This has a direct effect on his capacity for choice of university work. He has had a good deal of provocation to think, and naturally he thinks about himself. This would be true of any material which was taught concentratedly and thoroughly in small groups, but Greek and Latin literature have a peculiar tendency to stimulate self knowledge. And of course he thinks about other things, the impulse having been aroused. His home has usually supplied him with plenty of excellent modern material for thought...
...classical scholarship is not given merely for mastery of Greek and Latin. The examination will demand an essay, calculated to test his powers of original thought and expression, and a general paper which demands a fairly thorough saturation in English history and literature. Here again the school has gone out of its way to "polish him up" and the result is that he has had plenty of experience in concentrated reading in fields other than the classics. These fields also have a peculiar suitability for provoking thought about himself...
...David Whitney Lewis '35, of Brookline are the winners of the managerial competition of the Instrumental Clubs. Barker will become second assistant manager at once and will be manager during his Junior year, while Lewis will manage the Freshman Instrumental Clubs this spring. Both men prepared at Roxbury Latin...
...United States and Latin America, 1815-1822," Professor Baxter, Harvard...