Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard shortly before his inauguration a large group of students managed to upset the Secret Service by surrounding him and demanding a speech. But the true riot of that year occurred in the spring, when for two days students protested the Corporation's decision to change diplomas from Latin to English...
...Latin Is, Pusey No," was the chant of 2000 traditionalists, led by a sixth year Latin student who, complete with toga and laurel wreath, orated from the steps of Widener on the virtues of the classics. The crowd decided to vent their indignation on President Pusey, who first merely wondered, "Why can't I ever have a quiet evening at home," and then tried to justify the Latin-to-English switch in verse (borrowed from the Bryn Mawr alumnae bulletin...
What's pat in Latin...
...human beings of whom they know nothing." George Bernard Shaw gibed that doctors score only triumphs, since their mistakes are always buried. Over the ages, doctors have compounded both the awe and the anxiety by acting as a self-anointed priesthood whose rites and methods (complete with prescriptions in Latin) were beyond the understanding of any outsider. Even today, physicians are a powerful and self-protective group that bridles at criticism, maintains an arcane authority by telling the patient as little as possible and thus, of course, provides little basis on which it may be judged...
...addition to the three Bowdoin Prizes in English, two awards are given annually to undergraduates for translations of English prose into Greek and Latin. Five Bowdoins also go to graduate students...