Word: vici
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pronunciation of Latin, as now taught at Harvard, would sound like burlesque to those who learned Latin 20 or 30 years ago. Veni, vidi, vici, is pronounced wanee, wedee, weeke. This revolution is due to Prof. George M. Lane, who thinks he finds his authority for it in a careful study of Quintilian. - Cornell...
...strange language in which the Quinquennial catalogue has been printed since the dark ages. This language was reported on good authority to be a close adaptation of that famous tongue which gave birth to the words (since adopted as the favorite motto of the athletic committee) "Veni, vidi, vici." But, alas ! strange inconsistencies have crept in with the progress of civilization, until we doubt if even Caesar himself would take much pleasure in perusing the contents of the catalogue of the present...
...Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici. The assembled Faculty received me with uncovered heads. The chairman of the returning board bored me with an address three hours long. He alluded in feeling terms to the evidence contained in my Latin paper that I spent my Sundays in profitable conversation, - probably on art, he remarked. He also hazarded...