Word: martius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santa Francesca Romana" [TIME, Feb. 7]. Why drag Caesar into this Hollywood transaction? The Church of Santa Francesca Romana, built on the ancient Temple of Venus and Roma, stands at the east end of the Forum. Caesar fell in the theater of Pompey, which stood in the Campus Martius, well over a kilometer west...
...Shakespeare, who placed Caesar's murder in the Capitol, almost a kilometer east of the Campus Martius...
...clean beat on its fellow colleges. From Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (Alma College '98) came a letter to President Seymour congratulating him on "Yale's assumption of leadership." Only sour note came from the Harvard Crimson. In an editorial headed "Big Men on Campus Martius," the Crimson charged that Yale men were being "high-pressured" into picking their war job prematurely. Said the Crimson: "The panicked speed with which all Yale men are being called to the colors adds little to a cause which requires clear thought instead of hysterical action...
...editorial appearing in this morning's Crimson sarcastically entitled "Big Men on Campus Martius" must have appeared as a sad commentary on the exigencies of the present crisis...
...cowyard procured by Governor Winthrop in 1637 for "a schoale or colledge" is no reason for adopting a name totally alien to our way of life. The ex-swampland which is Eliot House and the far-off wilderness which is Dunster are no more descended from the Romans' Campus Martius than are the peaceful preserves of Hollis and Stoughton. Both sides of Mass. Ave. are equally consecrated to intellectual grazing, luminating, and chewing...