Word: owning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Other plays, both in Greek and Latin, could be produced with profit. Greek and Latin, if they are to hold their own under present educational conditions, must be presented, not simply as fit tools for mental exercise, but as worthy of study for themselves,- as the introduction to other civilizations...
It is true that all the modern nations have essentially pronounced Latin according to the sounds of their own language, but no one has departed so far from the original as the English. Others have changed a few consonantal sounds, in accordance with the usage even of the early centuries...
Two things, I think, are clear: that it is impossible to put our finger upon the exact point of time when the speech of England became what we understand under the name English, and that a language existed as early as three centuries and a half after the Norman conquest...
At the meeting this evening at Dr. Huntington's, 12 Ware street, Professor Cooke will lecture to the club on "The History of Photography," illustrated by examples from his own early work. As Professor Cooke was one of the first photographers in this country, his lecture will be of unusual...
The performance of the Latin Play was intentionally named for this day, in order to follow the custom of the Romans in presenting such plays on public festivals. Peculiar circumstances of our own therefore make more fitting still this action by the Corporation.