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...DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FURY; RESTORED BY AMERICAN GIFTS" is the way in which most people would translate the Latin sentence, "Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta...
...arms of Belgium and the United States are framed in the high balustrade which surrounds and crowns the building; in this balustrade is interwoven an inscription describing the destruction of the old Library and the fact that the restoration is a gift of the American people. "Furore Teutonica Diruta.--Dono Americano Restituta...
Patres nostri, homines et diligentes et frugales, in silvis incognitis cum domus suas et acdem ad Deum colendum acdificavissent, meditari coeperunt quo modo pueros sibi eradirent. Quibus collegium condere volentibus; vir quidam liberalis, sapientiae studiosus Johannes Harvard, sui oblitus dono munifico effecit ut schola valeret floreretque. Hoc in faciendo vitam suam brevem ipsam et morti immatura fractam gloria immortali ornavit...
...carved and finished with a touch of dull gold. Under the seat there will be decorations of scroll work, and on the seat itself a heavy tufted crimson cushion. The back of the chair will be high with ornamental carvings and embossed work; near the top the words "Ex Dono Class of 1903" are to be inscribed. Resting on the top of the back will be scroll work supporting the shield of the Union in colors...
...inscription on the base-ball case, in the Auditor's room of Memorial Hall, is a curious melange: Ex dono '78, '79, '80, January, 1878. The grammatical canon is yet to be found which authorizes such a jumble of Latin, Arabic numerals, and English...