Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee aimed its strongest criticism at the whole group of middle level courses, which it says "fluctuates wildly" in difficulty from the "ridiculously low" level of most of the courses to Greek and Latin 112, which "resemble no other course so much in their intent and result as Chemistry...
...committee wants to see a basic and systematic sequence of courses established to eliminate the "guessing game" students must now play to figure out what courses will be offered. But chances of establishing such a sequence are slight, for Wendell V. Clausen, professor of Greek and Latin and chairman of the department, said yesterday that the department can't influence professors to teach any particular course or to set an arbitrary level of difficulty. "We don't want a rigid system," he said...
Another of the committee's proposals is aimed at lessening the gap between students who major in Classics and those who major in either Latin or Greek. At present Classics majors have to take general examinations in both Latin and Greek while the single-language majors lave to take generals in only one. The HPC wants to make translation passages in both languages mandatory...
...aiming at a PTA-type group, which has limited appeal to the parents of most Challenge participants. Nevertheless, Challenge held a well-attended meeting for eight grade students and their parents at which a Cambridge school official spoke about the choice between going to Ridge Tech or Cambridge Latin for high school. And last Sunday several mothers ran a profitable bake sale, to raise money for the Challenge library...
...Roman Catholic Church in October by participating in a four-hour ceremony inaugurating the first native Haitian archbishop and four new Haitian bishops. The Vatican in return sent a new Papal nuncio and lifted Duvalier's earlier excommunication. As for the Communists, Haiti is one of the few Latin American countries on which they seem to have no designs: it is too helplessly backward even for them...