Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst them. The supership, as yet nameless, is being built with utmost secrecy as to exact details, in the largest French shipyards, Societé Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire, which had to be enlarged for the purpose by demolishing an entire block of buildings at the upper end of the shipway-a waste tut-tutted by thrifty Frenchmen...
What we have in mind in the present case is a course open to all members of the three upper classes which would take up the whole field of Greek literature in the first term and Latin in the second, by the lecture-preceptorial method, just as other literature courses are conducted at present. The work of the course might be built around reading assignments in translations of established excellence. It is pertinent to note that Yale offers several courses in "Classical Civilization" not requiring the use of Latin and Greek in the original, which appear to be successful...