Word: salutamus
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Thus, in his Morituri Salutamus, Alumnus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (class of 1825) exhorted the seniors of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) on the 50th anniversary of his own graduation. Last week Bowdoin, still one of the nation's top-ranking small colleges, celebrated its 150th anniversary. For 2,160 of its bold alumni there are stars in Bowdoin's World War II service flag; for 31 of the boldest the stars are gold...
...viri doctissimmi societate sancta Phi Beta Kappa delecti primo mane postea vos salutamus. Supra mundum plebrum perturbatum, tranquilli in lucis et veritatis contemplatione, tumidi erbriique noctu magno cum convivio recubuisti et de rebus omnibus lingua mortua maiorum orationem habuisti. Qui vella Chicagoensia tradit in eruditionis altioris mysteria vos initiavit. Soli ex omnibus filiis Yaleusibus discipulis rudibus demississque ubertatem verborem centum librorum pulverulentium commendatione dignorum a Roberto Hutchins exhausisti...
...elme, invocati, sub toga quaque cor sine mendacio et sine coronary thrombosis pulsare scimus. O, moraturi (ex inquistionibus) vos salutamus. Vos intrepidos de metu libri careuleri vereti sumus. Pro vobis solis fores gloriae et W P A apertae sunt. Yalens, officiumque bursaris vobis de causa elata sunt."--Yale News Editorial...
Though there are few older situations than this, Miss Bankhead manages to get through the moraturi te salutamus business with a minimum of fustian. She nervously stabs cigarets into ash trays, gasps, whispers in the approved manner of the Green Hat school of acting. With but two months left to live, she finds that dissipation is not a proper preparation for meeting her Maker, goes to Dr. Steele in Vermont. Here, before Death overtakes her, Miss Bankhead runs the other gamut of her talent, bouncing around on furniture, puffing out her cheeks in gay girlishness...
...editor so truly sez at th' end uv his editoriul. "Morituri Salutamus" I fully agree with him, but I think they're lettin too many uv these foreigners inter th' country...