Word: lingua
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis, - which in lingua vernacula significes "May Fortune and the Faculty favor the sons as they have their fathers." Yesterday we published the first of a series of articles recalling the victories and defeats and hard-won fights of the various notable athletic teams which have represented Fair Harvard on flood and field in bygone days. The compiler of these historical potpourris has many a curious legend to tell, - of how that famous crew of 185 - , or was it 186, - when hard pressed by her mighty opponents on Lake Winnipiseogee, and almost swamped by the mighty...
...fellows from all parts of the country who differ from each other in ideas, in customs, in manners, and even in dialect. Our country is so large that we are like the nations of Gaul, of whom Caesar says,-what school boy will ever forget the sentence? -Hi omnes lingua institutes, legibus inter se different...
...juniors to attend two exercises a week in political economy for half the year, and at Brown juniors and seniors may elect the subject for two hours a week, the one a half, the other a whole year. While the eleventh century thought it had a permanent curriculum in "Lingua, tropus, ratio, numerous, tonus, augulus, astra," history proves that the staples of education have changed, and reason says still more clearly that they must change. It is not proposed to substitute new subjects for the old, but only "to put new subjects beside the old in a fair competition...
...catulas blande cum lingua lambere temptant - and when they try to lamb the cubs with the bland tongue...