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...Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells" was so coy that many people in the audience laughed aloud. "Cum mortuis in lingua mortua," ("Among the dead in a dead language") became eerily reminiscent of the eighth Brahms Paganini variation in book...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Amazin' Awadagin Hits Boston | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...always agree with the administration. On April 21, 1961, the CRIMSON ran a small article on the bottom of its front page, innocently proclaiming "Lingua Latina Mortua Est." Less than one week later, several students gathered in front of Widener to hear an orator proclaim that Harvard should keep Latin diplomas even if the University became "the last light in a darkened world." Within three hours, more than 2000 students had participated in a riot which rivaled the proportions of the famed Pogo riot, complete with tear...

Author: By Richard L. Levine, | Title: Class of '63 Sees Great Changes in College | 6/12/1963 | See Source »

...viri doctissimmi societate sancta Phi Beta Kappa delecti primo mane postea vos salutamus. Supra mundum plebrum perturbatum, tranquilli in lucis et veritatis contemplatione, tumidi erbriique noctu magno cum convivio recubuisti et de rebus omnibus lingua mortua maiorum orationem habuisti. Qui vella Chicagoensia tradit in eruditionis altioris mysteria vos initiavit. Soli ex omnibus filiis Yaleusibus discipulis rudibus demississque ubertatem verborem centum librorum pulverulentium commendatione dignorum a Roberto Hutchins exhausisti...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

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