Word: quintilian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House matches, Dick Quintilian of Adams House will wrestle Ed Cross of Dunster House. In the 130 lb. class, Bob Weiler of Dunster will meet Dave McLean of Leverett. In the 137 lb. division, Bob Holmes of Leverett will take on Bob Collier of Dudley, while Frank Fawcett of the Bellboys meets Bob McLaughlin of the Puritans...
...Quintilian Dixit . . . According to Sweet, today's Latin teachers are guilty of one of two errors. Error 1 is that they try to do as the Romans did, falling for some advice from old Quintilian (1st century) that "the children should begin by learning to decline nouns and conjugate verbs." By this method, pupils spend arduous hours memorizing rules and words, just as their predecessors did in Rome. The big trouble, says Sweet, is that the Roman youngsters already spoke Latin, while modern students...