Word: medicum
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...house life. To ease conversation, one Latin scholar has compiled a list of Harvard-related terms translated into Latin. Quadlings can tell Virgil they live in the Tetragonum and freshmen can tell Augustus that they dwell in Area Harvardiana. Last week, participants also discussed dentistry. “O medicum malum!” was Siena T. Koncsol’s ’08 response when Anna K. Swenson ’08 complained about a bad visit to the dentist. That, she explained, means “Oh, bad doctor.” O for real? We thought...
Despite the comic-opera façade, however, Tubman made some substantial contributions to Africa's oldest independent black state. His rule was characterized by both stability and a medicum of physical progress. By means of education and arm-twisting, Tubman did all he could to wipe out the differences between native tribesmen and the elitist Americo-Liberians (descendants of Liberia's freed-slave founders...
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