Word: latinity
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...Will the Latin Oration ever die a quiet death? Probably...
Happily for today's graduates, disputations in Latin on theses philologicae et philosophicae, including propositions by Aristotle and Duns Scotus, is no longer a requirement at Commencement...
...Harvard moved away from its beginnings as a Christian seminary, Greek and Hebrew, which with Latin were necessary to study scripture, lost their importance. The Greek and Hebrew orations disappeared somewhere along...
...colonial Commencement, the first Latin oration was delivered "in a heavy manner," noted a bored Samuel Eliot Morrison, Class...
Happily for him, the second Latin oration was interrupted by a fight outside of the meetinghouse; six men and a constable were beating two drunken English soldiers...