Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vocabulary and conversational prowess of the Classical Club has been tested to the utmost at yesterday's dinner in Leverett House where only Latin was spoken. Hardly since the banqueting days of Trimalchio has such mealtime abandonment to the Latin tongue been reported; for even the medieval monks sandwiched in bits of contemporary jargon over their Benedictine. But at Leverett House, the only digression into the dialect of the Northern Barbarian Tribes was heard when food was ordered from the bewildered maids...
...result of the success of the modern language tables at the Union, a dinner at which only Latin will be spoken in to be held by the Classical Club on Wednesday evening at 6.30 o'clock in the Leverett House dining hall. In spite of the fact that difficulties are expected to arise in finding words to suit the modern table conditions. Dr. A. H. Chase '27, president of the club, believes that this will not greatly hinder the general table conversation...
Officially designated "Grand Old Man of Maine" by Governor William Tudor Gardiner, Dr. Julian Daniel Taylor is at 85 "dean of U. S. college professors." Rugged, venerable, he has taught Latin at Colby for 63 years. Though retired as professor emeritus, he still conducts a senior Latin course. Unanimously, Colby alumni elected him last summer to the board of trustees. Less rich than Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell or Groton's late William Amory Gardner, who left Groton $500,000, Harvard $100,000, he is comfortably off. Married in 1892 to Mary Keely Boutelle of Waterville...
...entrance requirements, too, differ entirely from the ones now in use. In 1820 the prospective student had to be: "Well versed in the grammar of the English, Latin and Greek languages; in 'Virgil', Cicero's 'Select Orations', 'Salust', 'The Greek Testament', Dalzel's 'Collectanea Graeca Minora', 'Latin and Greek Prosody', 'Arithmetick', and 'Ancient and Modern Geography...
Mourning Becomes Electra was largely written last year at his house near Tours, France. Returned to the U. S. this summer for rehearsals, seven weeks of them, he said he would never live abroad again. He has three children: Eugene Jr., who won a Latin prize at Yale last year (TIME, June 8) of which his father is very proud, Ona and Shane. He is also attached to a Dalmatian named Blemie...