Word: amicitiae
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What touched of-the uproar was an incident in a University of Amsterdam student club, inappropriately called "Nos Inngit Amicitia" (Friendship Ties Us Together). When a freshman complained because a plate of hot soup was poured over him, he was told to keep quiet or face "the Dachau treatment," in which upperclassmen shout, "Jews stand up!" (or "Negroes stand up!" or "Are there any Chinese here?"), then taunt the victims. "I lost my parents there during the war," protested the freshman, but he was ordered to go through with the game. An indignant parent wrote a letter to a Rotterdam...
...Joseph Cullen Root of Lyons, Iowa, tired of his State-restricted fraternal insurance society, the V.A.S. (Vera Amicitia Sempiterna Est or "True Friendship is Eternal") of which he was Chief Rector, started a similar one which would know no bounds. He had fun preparing a ritual but was stumped for a name for his new order. Then in church one Sunday he heard a minister use the simile of woodmen clearing away the forest near their homes for safety's sake. Promptly Founder Root chose the name Modern Woodmen of America. Local lodges were called Camps, members Neighbors...
...which is continued for his first year in the Graduate School. He received second-year honors in the classics and was given a detur at the last award of academic distinctions. This year he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His part is entitled "De Amicitia Semper Conservanda...
...following speakers were chosen: undergraduate parts--English; E. E. Brown, "The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom"; W. O. Hubbard, "Public Evening Schools"; J. deR. Storey, "The Italian in America." Latin; R. A. Moore, "De Amicitia Semper Conservanda." Graduate part--W. A. Lambeth gr.Dv., "The Spirit of the Present South...
...Latin B, the "Cicero de Amicitia," will be read immediately, and the "Andria" of Terence will be postponed until later...