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...first the idea of Latin, even of "simplified Latin" as a common medium of expression, obtains none too sympathetic a reception. It is difficult for the average American to conceive of a person actually speaking Latin, even if that person were Macaulay's schoolboy himself and the language had all its gerundives and supines omitted. Professor West, however, approaches the problem from a new angle. He does not suggest Latin because of any inherent advantages, but arrives at his conclusion only after a careful examination has exposed the impossibility of using any other language either modern, or ancient, or artificial...
Phillips Exeter Academy.--Macaulay s.s., Walber 2b., Bennett r.f., Wortham 1b., MacPhail l.f., Burns (Zarakov) c.f., Coleman (Ullman) 3b., McLaughlin c., Sawyer (Booth...
...losing to Cambridge Latin in the first game of the season by the score of 4 to 1. Since then, Exeter has downed Tilton Seminary, Brown Freshmen, and Hebron Academy, winning in each case by overwhelming margins. The nine has been built around six letter men, who are Captain Macaulay, Adams, Burns, Walber, Brackett, and Stone...
...literature can equal. "The proper study of mankind is man". History pursued for such reasons may help much to broaden the mind, quicken the imagination, increase one's knowledge of human nature, and free one from the prejudices peculiar to the time and place in which he lives. Macaulay declared: "The real use of traveling in distant countries and of studying the annals of past times is to preserve man from the contraction of mind which those can hardly escape whose whole communion is with one generation and one neighborhood, who arrive at conclusions by means of an induction...
Plans are now being completed for a Harvard-Dartmouth dance to be held at the Hotel Somerset on October 27, the evening preceding the Dartmouth game. The undergraduate committee at Hanover in charge of the affair is composed of George Fuller '23, of Brighton, and R. P. Macaulay '23, of Revere...