Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Classical Club held its first meeting of the academic year in the Eliot House Senior Common Room last evening. Gerald F. Else '29, instructor of Latin and Greek, was elected president, and Robert F. Sharp '37, secretary treasurer. Alan M. G. Little, instructor of Greek and Latin and retiring president, was praised for his efforts in making last year's Latin play a success. Brief plans for the year were mentioned. The remainder if the meeting was devoted to a talk by Mr. C. M. Bowra, visiting lecturer from Oxford, on the subject, "Avenues of Classical Study" Mr. Bowra...
...about and bowing of heads, and all the while most of us were wondering where Mr. Conant was. Presently, the guards left the Vice-Chancellor, and after much more bowing brought in Mr. Conant. Still more tipping of caps and bowing and Public Orator, Dr. C. Bailey, in excellent Latin, recalled the visit made by the Vice-Chancellor as head of the Oxford delegation to the tercentenary celebrations at Harvard. Then Mr. Conant's accomplishments were reviewed and his aim as the head of Harvard set down: ". . . ut hominum societat em maximan ex diversis et ipsam elementsis compositam in unum...
...will be my purpose, when elected, to make the United States in reality a good neighbor to Latin America, to use John Jay's term...
...sketch, primarily devoted to A. E. Housman's achievements as a scholar, by one of his Cambridge associates. Seventy-two of the 137 pages in A. E. Hoisman are given over to a list of the poet's scattered writing; the remainder describe his early failures in Latin, his work in the Patent Office, his quarrels with other Latinists, his arrogance, acid humor, anti-social habits and desire to erect an imperishable monument to his name...
...members were Thomas V. Healey '40, of Worcester, and Arthur Cantor '40, of Mattapan. Healey, who was recently elected captain of the football team prepared at Worcester Academy and was automatically on the Union Committee after his election as captain of the Yardling eleven. Cantor prepared at Boston Latin School, and was named as a representative of the Commuters. The election of the two men brings the total membership to 12, ten Freshmen having been appointed on October...