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Student (anticipating the regular joke). Please tell me what verb is omitted in this passage, "Di majorum umbris tenuem et sine pondere terram...
...Latin were correct. But Mr. R. apparently has yet to learn, what every experienced Latin teacher does learn, that it is very unsafe to say that anything is bad Latin. He certainly has detected some serious mistakes, - one, over which he gets specially exultant, in the conjugation of a verb, - one so very bad that a candid reviewer would have recognized it at once, to use Macaulay's expression on a similar occasion, as a blunder that the greatest scholar might make in haste, and that the veriest school-boy might detect at his leisure. But all the time, while...
...find from some of our exchanges that Harvard has become the subject of a rather warm discussion in certain college circles. What she has done, is doing, and is yet to do, - what Carlyle would denominate her "infinite conjugation of the verb To Do," - has been ruthlessly divulged. As every discussion of this kind sends up some drift-matter of questionable soundness, so we find now a couple of bits that we recognize as exceedingly familiar and as thoroughly worthless as when they first dropped into the tide of discussion that sets so regularly towards Harvard. In the first place...
COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER (to new scholar). Can you tell me what the verb Baivw means...