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...Rome. Some rhymes, they found, are at least as old as the city of Rome. Horace described little children playing Rex erit qul recte faciet-the first version of "I'm the king of the castle." Petronius heard a small boy say Bucca, bucca, quot sunt hie?, which later became "Buck she, buck she, buck / How many fingers do I hold up?" At least one rhyme in nine, say the Opies, was known in the time of Charles I; a good half are at least 200 years...
After these "calamitates," Pinoculus runs off to "Toy Land" (Crepundovia), where there are no schools ("Scholae non sunt") and the walls of the houses bear "Down with arithmetic!" slogans and other "flores sententiarum...
Harvard Hymn, by John Knowles Paine '69; Glorious Aplie, by Webbe (written for the first glee club, London, 1790); Tenebrae Factac Sunt, by Ingegneri, Bacchanal, by Cocchi, from Apollonian Harmony; Marching to Pretoria (South African Veldt song), arranged by Ruth E. Abbot; Magdlein lm Waide, by Dvorak (Czech Folk Song, Op. 43, No. 3, 1877); Gaudemus, College Medley, arranged for the Glee Club by William F. Russell...
Julius Caesar said that of all the Gauls fortissimi sunt Belgae...
...elme, invocati, sub toga quaque cor sine mendacio et sine coronary thrombosis pulsare scimus. O, moraturi (ex inquistionibus) vos salutamus. Vos intrepidos de metu libri careuleri vereti sumus. Pro vobis solis fores gloriae et W P A apertae sunt. Yalens, officiumque bursaris vobis de causa elata sunt."--Yale News Editorial...