Word: romanizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tactful in the presence of the easily shocked. For instance, where the Christians are cheerfully assigning themselves to places on the Coliseum menu, and one gentleman announces that he is to be the mince pie. Probably, however, this is no more a burlesque on anachronism than to have Roman centurions speak cockney English, or the Roman dandles have all the characteristics of London fops. It might be argued that Shaw did this to make it quite understandable to the British mind. Satirically speaking, that is exactly his point...
Professor Charles Jean de Vallee Poussin, the Louvain professor who has been invited to lecture here on mathematics during the second half year, has just arrived in Cambridge. His colleague, Professor Leon Dupriez, who will give two course on Roman Law an don political institutions in Europe, will not be expected for about two weeks...
...series on "Ethnology and the Classics" will be given by Mr. Oric Bates '08, Curator of African Archaeology in the Peabody Museum, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. The special subject of this fourth lecture will be "A Roman Institution; the Salii. The Meaning and Purpose of the Sacred Dance at Rome." The lecture is open to the public...
...Lectures on Ethnology and the Classics. IV. "A Roman Institution: the Salii. The Meaning and Purpose of the Sacred Dance at Rome." Mr. Oric Bates. Lecture Room of Fogg Art Museum...
Each of the four posts is to bear on its face fronting the approach to the bridge, a pink marble tablet bearing an inscription in bronze Roman capitals, each inscription to be different from the others. Above the inscription on two of them will be the coat of arms of the Society of the Cincinnati the the badge of the Legion of Honor and the seal of the Society of the Spanish War. On the other two tablets will be the seal of the University. The inscription on the Cambridge end up-stream will read as follows...