Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presiding at the competition will be Vernon H. Struck '38, second marshal of the senior class. The judges are John H. Finley, Jr., assistant professor of Greek and Latin; Joseph R. Hamlen; G. H. Maynadier, assistant professor of English, emeritus; Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, emeritus; and Hon. Eliot Wardsworth. Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will serve as honorary judge...
John McL. Clark, 27, editorial writer on the Washington Post. A graduate of Dartmouth he has specialized in Latin-American affairs...
...strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals...
...original entrants survived the semi-final round of the annual Lee Wade and Boylston prize competition for English or Latin declamation held in Paine Hall yesterday afternoon...
Only one of the competitors, Gordon N. Messing '38, chose a Latin selection, reciting parts from Lucretius' "De Rerum Naturae." Other recitations ranged from excerpts from James Joyce to passages from a speech made by Senator Claude Pepper on the 1937 Appropriation Act. The finals, open to the public, will be held in Paine Hall on Wednesday evening, March...