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Vidit vir prudentissimus oportere homines non modo corporum viribus silvas arare, bestias opporimere feras, Indos barbaros plane superare et dominari, sed mentes hominum, puerorum praecipue, ad res divinas et optimas instituere. Intellexit quoque homines plurimum valere, si mentibus comprehendissent tum quam sapiens et amabilis esset ipse Deus, tum quam pulchro ordine haec rerum natura ab ipso esset creata. Animorum vi vivida sapientes posse, ordine divino intellecto, terram Americanam imperio suo possidere...
...nostra aetate quoque nec pecunia, nec mole rerum immensa, nec machinatione callida alte volantium aut vim fulminis ipsam tractantium, neque audacia polum glacialem explorantium poterimus pravos et improbos invare acignaros instituere; sed necesse est nos mentes hominum illuminatione animorum divina incendere et excitare...
Again, this nation must conquer other nations, not by arms, but by example. We must so live that all eyes shall be turned toward the republic, and that the world may be so impre sed with the justice of our form of government that it will recognize it as the best government on all the earth...
...building faces East, and highly polished oak doors set off the front porch, in the centre of which "Non Ministrari sed Ministrare" is laid in tessello ted marble. All the inner doors, floors, and window sashes are made of soft yellow pine, which is capable of a very high polish. The walls and ceilings are glazed with a hard, white, glossy finish. The sun parlors are the principal features of the building, being so constructed as to admit the sunlight during the whole...
...those days absences were announced in Latin every Saturday and excuses were given in Latin. Common excuses were semel aegrotavi, bis invalui, detentus ab amicis, exoppido and tintinnabulum non andivi. One freshman, charged with three absences, replied: "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the Buttery." The poor freshmen had a hard time of it indeed. No freshman could wear his hat in the college yard unless it rained, showed, or hailed, or unless his hands were full. No freshman could speak to a senior (and a senior for him meant any upper classman) with...