Word: visconte
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...years past the American educator could say of the classics, as President Coolidge did of the League, that they were a "dead issue". But significantly enough Latin and Greek have refused to accept this dictum. It is not, therefore, without a keen analysis of the trend of education that Viscont Finlay, former Lord Chancellor of England, upon assuming the Presidency of the Classical Association of Scotland, ventured the opinion that the tide of interest had turned in favor of the classics. That this phenonenon is not purely European is indicated by the increased enrolment in classical courses in American universities...
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