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After a vigorous debate by professors peppering their oratory with phrases like "sine qua non" and "quod erat demonstrandum," the Faculty passed a proposal to award citations at graduation to undergraduates who have completed high-level work in a foreign language...
...Olim erat magister linguae Latinae nomine Richard Case, LVIII, qui do-cebat in Middlesex Schola, Concordiae, Massachusetts. Tristis erat quod multi suorum discipulorum putabant linguam Latinam aridam esse, et nolebant grammaticam studere...
Itaque Case coepit scribere fabulam heroicam quam discipuli legere amarent. Appellabatur Daimon, et incipi-bat simplicissime: "Olim erat in insula Herakleia puer nomine Daimon . .." Case primas paucas paginas exhibuit quattuor ex suis discipulis et hi constituerunt illi auxilium ferre ad fabulam scribendam. Case dixit: "Ab eventu ad eventum procedebamus, intellexi, si pueri ipsi fabulam invenirent, certe excitaturam esse...
Magister atque sui quattuor discipuli narraverunt fabulam de Daimone, filio regis Herakleiae, qui peregrinatus est per mare Aegeum. Contra piratas ac serpentes maritimos pugnavit, et implicatus est cum deis, et centauris, et equis alatis. Case dixit: "Postremo erat magna disputatio de questione num Daimon deberet moriri in tempestate modo herois. Discipuli arguerunt Dai-monem dignum esse ut viveret...
...sooner had Intrepid nosed out Australia's Gretel 11 in the fifth and deciding America's Cup race last week than the spectator boat America, a replica of the schooner that first won the cup in 1851, hoisted the signal flags for Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum-which was to be proved). A more fitting postscript would have been V.Q.P., for vincit qui patitur-he that can endure overcometh. In defeating Gretel II by 4-1 in the best-of-seven series, Intrepid had endured the longest (14 days) and strongest challenge in decades...