Word: suo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Latin in the class-rooms and in the college yard. Latin was the main requirement for admission to Harvard College. The rule was: "When a scholar is able to understand Tully (Cicero) or such like classical Latin author extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo ut aunt Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigm's of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue; let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college." Such classical preparation was given to boys by the ministers in and around Cambridge, who were well educated Englishmen...
...Collegio Harvardiano antiquitus consociati, nuper vetera amicitiae iura auspiciis optimis renovavimus; litteris datis acceptisque trans maria lata dextras iunximus; legatis denique Insignibus missis, ludis illissaecularibus, etiam absentes, velut praesentes interfuimus. Hodie vero e Collegii illius professoribus unum re vera praesentem videmus, virum et suo et patris et Collegii sui nomine nobis dilectum. Donec Alpium inter culmina ingentes illae glaciei moles desuper paullatim descendunt, tam diupatris illius nomen superstes vivet, qui, in Republica non magna natus, Rempublicam maximam gloriae suae fecit participem, expertus scilicet vetera illa verba quam vera essent...
...first code of laws put forth by the college authorities was known as the "Dunster Code," and its first regulation was as follows: "When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical author, extempore, and make and speak true Latin, in verse and in prose, Suo ut aiunt Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue; let him then, and not before, be capable of admission to college...