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...formal, serious, and matter of fact character of the people who developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing thought to English speaking people. Thousands of persons can express thought in Latin and millions can use quotational tags of it, but only a few ecclesiastics are moved to think in the forms of the language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Latin Play. | 4/20/1894 | See Source »

...senior class at Yale have elected the following officers and committees: Poet, Edwin B. Reed of Holyoke, Mass.; orator, John L. Hall, of Willimantic; statistician, W. C. Tilson, Clear Branch, Tenn.; ivy committee, N. W. Green, Worcester, Mass., J. R. Trowbridge of Chicago, Robert Nichols, Binghamton, N. Y.; triennial committee, P. H. McMillan, of Detroit, Mich., Alonzo Potter of New York, John R. Howland of New York city; cup committee, H. P. Perkins, Warren, O., A. P. Harrington, Lyons, N. Y., and F. L. Polk, New York city; secretary, W. G. Van Nane, New Haven; historians, E. S. Reed, Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Commencement Officers. | 10/19/1893 | See Source »

...regular triennial catalogue of Bowdoin College has been discontinued. In its place there will be one published every five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/29/1892 | See Source »

Last Saturday evening the class of '69 held its triennial dinner at the new University Club House on Beacon Street. Places were laid for twenty-four and Mr. F. H. Appleton officiated as toast master...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/29/1892 | See Source »

...class of '69 will hold its triennial dinner, at the new University Club house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/12/1892 | See Source »

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