Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever the stage was set for a masterpiece, it was at the start, of the Stuart rule. The Hebrew text of the Bible, with vocabulary "simple and sensuous", is itself supremely translatable. St. Jeronie's Vulgate formed a bridge into the Latin. Wycliffe, Tyndale, and Coverdale had blazed the English trail. And the forty seven scholars, the most learned that England could boast, carried in them the spirit of the age. It was the age "of Shakespeare's London and the ships of the Elizabethan voyagers-- of men whose language was as vivid and as virile as their lives." Small...
Benedict Einarson, of Chicago, III., now a Junior Fellow, has been appointed instructor in Greek and Latin and tutor in the Division for three years effective next September...
...packed to the doors. Students, critics, laymen and churchmen well know that no other organization in the U. S. can sing plain song so perfectly as the Pius X School Choir. Last week Manhattanites were marveling again that any choir could get such feeling out of archaic melodies and Latin texts...
Registration in the annual Lee Wade and Boylston Elocution Contest, long a traditional proving ground for aspiring Patrick Henrys, must be completed today by all applicants. Upperclassmen desirous of entering the contest must submit passages in English, Greek, or Latin to Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '29, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
...roll of Boylston prize winners contains the names of numerous famous graduates. George Santayana '86 performed the unparalleled feat of winning awards for the recitation of both Latin and Greek passages, giving a selection from Virgil's "Aeneid" in his Junior year and one from Homer's "IIiad" as a Senior H. V. Kaltenborn '09 took first place in his Senior year. George R. Agassiz '84 and Arthur C. Train '96 are also among the eminent prize winners...