Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ringleader Sam Carr and Freda Linton are still loose; Carr has been reported at various places in Latin America. Another of the accused, Dr. Raymond Boyer of Montreal, is out on appeal bond under sentence of two years in prison...
Young college instructors are sometimes timid, but few are so timid as Kenneth C. M. Sills was. In his Latin class at Bowdoin College, he sometimes chewed his handkerchief to shreds. By the time he acquired a nickname-"Casey" (after his initials)-he was over some of his shyness. When old grads gathered at Bowdoin last week to help him celebrate his 30th anniversary as president, they found him a mellowed version of his young self-a fumbling figure with a kindly smile and a comfortable paunch. Casey has been at bat so long that few Bowdoin men could ever...
...Speak English. Born in Wisconsin (1857), of Norwegian farm parents, Veblen was fluent in Norwegian, German, Greek and Latin when he entered college -but knew scarcely any English. Learning it from academic texts, he emerged with a prose which today seems like a humorous man's academic parody of academic writing...
Recipients are: Richard L. Becker of Phillips Academy, Andover, Donald L. M. Blackmer of Harrow, England. Martin A. Chooljian of Haverhill High, Gerald P. Fitzgerald of Weymouth High, John H. T. Harvey of Doerfield Academy, Norman D. Levine of Boston Public Latin, Robert J. Mroceck of South Hadley High, Chase N. Peterson of Middlesex School, Peter P. Sorokin of Winchester High, David B. Tyack of Phillips Exeter Academy, and David A. Yphantis of Boston Public Latin...
...Italian, Latin, and Spanish--Memorial Hall...