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...aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas," said Ovid, and he must have been right. At any rate, one of the more overstimulated spectators of Saturday's debacle went after the sweet water of the Charles...
Died? Evelyn Butler, circa 60, professor of English at Butler University (Indianapolis), onetime (1923-30) Dean of Women, daughter of the University's onetime President Scot Butler, granddaughter of Benefactor Ovid Butler, for whom the University was named: after long illness; in Indianapolis...
...present written examinations are an hour long but candidates will be allowed an hour and a half for the new Latin test. It will consist of passages from Virgil or Ovid, Cicero or Ceasar, and two passages, of which the candidate must translate one, from Mediaeval and Renaissance poetry and prose...
Families of preachers are rarer in the U. S. than families of polo-players or bankers. But Rev. Ovid Americus Kinsolving (1823-94), descendant of British settlers in Tidewater, Va., set a record. He gave to the church four sons, four grandchildren, one great-grandson. Of the sons, two are dead. The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, longtime Bishop of Brazil and father of "Big Tui," was tall, handsome. It was customary for graduates of Virginia Seminary to hand their diplomas publicly to a girl, but for his there was such competition that he gave it to his mother...
...broader knowledge than the required study of two ancient authors can give him. To derive the most from his study of English drama, a man should have read in the original Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca, and to appreciate to the full his English satire he should know Horace, Ovid, and Persius. If, because of the ill-adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools, men cannot get their grounding in grammar of Classical languages there, and if because of pressing requirements of concentration and distribution, men cannot begin this elementary study in college, the alternative is to read the classics...