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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gloro there are 18 suffix forms to denote different parts of speech, verb tenses, case endings. There are no other rules of grammar. It looks and sounds even more like a hodge-podge of Latin, Italian and Spanish than that more famed lingua franca, Esperanto, which it considerably resembles. Its roots were chosen with great care, however, from various languages, especially English. Dr. Talmey particularly tried to incorporate those national words which have no one-word equivalents in other languages and are therefore frequently borrowed, becoming quasi-international. In English such words are snob, fad, aloof, to glance, to bluff...
...reassuring smile at Dr. Milani who stood nearby, looking nervous. After Mass, Pius XI was carried to the balcony below which, in St. Peter's Square, were jammed 150,000 people. Upon these, in a firm voice which was broadcast to the world, the Pope bestowed a Latin benediction, an apostolic blessing, in which he said to his people: "I thank you for the sustaining strength of your prayers during my long illness." Then he returned to his apartments, accepted a restorative cordial from Dr. Milani and wept tears...
These prizes are awarded to the winners in a public competition open to upperclassmen. The terms set down by the donors require that the speakers recite material of their own selection in prose or verse from English, Latin, or Greek Literature, which are approved by the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
Pennypacker, who died in 1933, was intimately connected with the University for the greater part of his life. As an undergraduate he starred on the track team as a shot-putter and hammer-thrower. From 1918-20 he was the headmaster of the Boston Latin School. In 1920 he became Chairman of the Committee on Admission here, a position which he held until his death. He was closely connected with athletics, being on the Committee for the Regulation of Athletics for fifteen years and Chairman of the Athletic Committee...
First the diploma recited in picturesque Latin Washington's public career until April 1776. Then, after briefly relating his rescue of Boston from the "naves et copias hostium", the diploma confers the degree "Doctor Utriusque Juris...