Word: contention
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Professor Santayana for a change in the method of teaching Latin in our present educational system. The learning of Latin was a fashion and has passed as all fashions do. "Instead of teaching with Latin and Greek words we should deal with Greek and Latin things. . . . Imagine the content of such courses as Latin 10 and Greek 10 and 11 required for admission to College instead of the present syntax and inflections. . . . Leave the Latin language to the philologists; so wretched and grotesque a shadow as the Latin now in the average mind is not worth fighting for." We have...
...arguments of those who favor the Warren House property as a site for the Harvard Union discloses the significant fact that they are distinctly apologetic. The advocates of this site do not pretend that the far side of Quincy street is, in any sense, a College centre; they content themselves with asserting that it can be made a centre, or with sneering at the idea that men will not care to walk for three or four minutes out of their way to reach the club...