Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Classified in the University Register as Latin 9, the new course was specially created to make use of Professor Pound's vast knowledge of Lucretius. He described in an interview yesterday how he first developed an interest in Lucretius while he was an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, and how he continued as a hobby his research, until today he is a recognized authority in the subject...
...Experience has taught us that Latin peoples, yes, even the peoples of distant Japan, are incomparably closer to us in their attitude toward life and philosophy than our 'Germanic cousins' on the British Isles." But while Germany gained a theory it lost a favorite old slogan: "Gott strafe England!" The argument: "If God, on whom the Germans called in vain 25 years ago was really capable of exercising such a measure of punitive power, He would not have waited till 1940 to punish the British," stated the paper. "In those days the Germans relied too much...
...Postal system had two main units: the "Land Line System," with a domestic telegraph business, and a cable and radio system to Europe and Latin America. In 1928, Clarence Mackay decided that music was a more interesting medium of communication, sold the system to International Telephone & Telegraph. By June 1935, I. T. & T. was fed up with advancing Postal cash to pay the $2,500,000-a-year interest on its bonds, let it slip into 77-B. Largest independent bondholder: Lehman Bros, (and clients), whose Bondholders Committee finally represented some $30,000,000 (about 60%) of the bonds...
...Columbus' own plentiful writing contradicts both them and himself. Ingenious Author de Madariaga culls through the lot. His best technical evidence: 1) Columbus' Spanish resembled the language of the 14th rather than the 15th Century (suggesting that he learned it from his parents) ; 2) his mistakes in Latin were those of a Spaniard, not an Italian or Portuguese...
...article tells how each man solved his own individual problem of what courses to take. One concentrated in Latin American history, another in the sciences, the other seven in "the broad field of public affairs," taking courses in labor economics, agricultural economics, unemployment relief, and Southern regional problems...