Word: latins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Headmaster Fuess had, at least, been forthright. His first step was to abolish the compulsory classics; he found it "absurd to drive a boy with no aptitude for the subject two or three times through Caesar's Commentaries." He prefers to have only half his boys take Latin, "because they want...
Another famous private school had a new head last week. Roxbury Latin, which, unlike Andover, still makes Latin compulsory for all hands, chose Frederick R. Weed, 41, as the youngest headmaster in its 300-year history. Weed went to public school, graduated from Harvard, was in banking before he took up teaching. A committee headed by Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, an old Roxbury boy himself, picked Weed...
...part in diabetes.) But he and his colleagues have also published nearly 300 reports on a wide range of medical studies. His monumental Human Physiology, considered by some the finest physiology text ever written, will soon be published in English by McGraw-Hill for worldwide distribution -the first Latin American scientific work to be given such recognition. Dr. Houssay has been honored by scientists and leaders of a dozen nations (including the British Royal Society). But in Argentina he is now restricted to a small laboratory financed partly by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...nobody can wholly like. Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure slapstick and warm laughter, and has borne down on moral complexity, terror and irony with an intensity never before attempted in films. At a time when many people have regained their faith in war under certain conditions and in free enterprise under...
...closing feature of the three day symposium of music criticism, Martha Graham and her dance company staged two ballets, "Dark Meadow," with music by Carlos Chavez, and "Night Journey," with music by William Schuman, Saturday evening at the Cambridge High and Latin School. Both works were commissioned for Miss Graham, who was the author of their choreography, by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress. "Dark Meadow" had been presented before, but Saturday night's audience was the first to witness "Night Journey...