Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notable among the tumblers are Ancient History, which fell from 1848 papers to 587 since 1932. Latin (9193 to 4572), and Mathematics...
...into a class war, full of horrors, without pity or generosity of any kind." Cold facts on Spain's horrors are increasingly hard to get past its censors but in Paris last week arrived United Press's seasoned Madrid correspondent Lester Ziffren, previously an ace coverer of Latin American civil wars. "For every soldier killed in battle in Spain's civil war, three persons-men, women and children -have been murdered behind the lines." declared Mr. Ziffren, making clear that Spaniards on both sides share equal blame as wholesale murderers...
...Victor) Serenade In The Night**1/4 by Roy Fox. Britain again invades our shores with what may be another Ray Noble. Here is a slow tango that needs no Latin to feel its appeal; too bad it is marred by poor lyrics. The reverse, That's Life, I Guess*3/4 by Guy Lombardo is so soft and gooey that your needle ought to stick in the grooves...
...Adam is the question of the suitability of the S.B. degree; yet like the pollution of that scriptural figure time has not satisfactorily disposed of the matter. Still there are men who graduate from Harvard and, though they have not concentrated in any scientific field, receive S.B. degrees because Latin conjugations or Greek declensions had no appeal for them in prep school. Their immediate reaction is open or secret ire and a strong impulse to kick Harvard officials where they will feel it most. A man concentrating in Music and gaining for his effort a S.B. learns too early...
...making a more accurate separation of the two degrees, what a student does in college should be taken into consideration. His field of concentration should determine the degree he receives, regardless of his expeditions with Caesar in secondary school. Now the two degrees often mean Bachelor of Three Years' Latin and Bachelor of Two Years' Latin. For an A.B. two years of Greek or three of Latin, together with two years of either French or German, are necessary. Both candidates for A.B.'s and S.B.'s must have a reading knowledge of French or German. If the heads...