Word: mutantur
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...things are changing," Republican Leader Hugh Scott told his Senate colleagues not long ago. "And we are changing with them. Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Right on, Senator Scott! Congress may be changing, but at what a pace. About as often as the planet Pluto swings around the sun, Congress does indeed bestir itself, examines the archaic rules by which it conducts the nation's business and gently blows away some of the accumulated dust of more than 180 years. But never enough to disturb one tradition -the hallowed rule of seniority-that has often prevented Congress...
...misunderstand the term freshman. Among the ancient Hindoos, by whom the word was first used, the sterner sex alone was capable of imbibing Greek, Latin and elocution; but tempora mutantur, and with the advent of the nineteenth century it was necessary for women too to be acquainted with empiricism and algebra, and therefore the old Sanskrit word has lost something of its significance...
...there was a time when I prided myself upon my knowledge of Chemistry, and gave every spare moment to the science. "Sed tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Excuse the quotation; only the dead languages can express my feelings. Before I came to Harvard I studied a couple of years in a Western college, and there I grew interested in Chemistry. My teacher was a man of many subjects, who might be classed as a Professor Intelligentiae Generalis. He taught Chemistry, Moral Philosophy, Botany, Geology, and Greek, besides occasionally some other branches when either of the other two professors...
...Tempora mutantur. There are twelve unoccupied rooms in the Yard, among them a Holworthy room...
...trust that the following may come to the notice of any "subs" who are vacillating between Yale and Harvard. It is needless to remark that tempora non mutantur...