Word: written
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following is written for the special benefit of the Sophomores of next year...
...time when Latin was the vehicle of all thought. The modern languages being not yet fixed, if a man wished to be understood he must speak Latin; if he wished to be read he must write in Latin. All works on theology, science, philosophy, history, and grammar were written in this language. Nothing more natural then than the study of Latin. It was the first thing to learn. But is language anything but an instrument? And Latin for us modern people is about as useful an instrument as the axes of the Age of Stone. It is not required...
BEFORE me, neatly pasted in the book which contains the printed and written evidence of the pleasures and pains of three years' college life, there, between a summons and a play-bill, lies the slip of paper whereon the Steward informs me that I may retain my old room for yet another year. The wording of this, to me, important document is formal to the last degree. The gentleman who gave it me, too, showed no appreciation of the importance of the transaction, but was gazing over my shoulder the while at a couple of Freshmen laden with checks...
...general delay among the Seniors in completing the list of answers to the Class Secretary's catechism must have become very exasperating. At least so it might be supposed from the bloodthirsty request in his late pronunciamento, " that those who have not written their lives will finish them immediately...
...this the written translation of Latin at sight will be in connection with the Latin composition, not with the Cicero and Virgil...