Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...semi-annual marks in Latin 2 will be given out next week, at a place to be hereafter announced...
Well, I'll tell you briefly what I did in my papers, and then you can judge for yourself whether I ought to be astonished or not. First came the Latin at sight. I had only read, in addition to the common authors, Ennius, Varro, Quintilian, Lucilius, Martial, Juvenal, and some twenty others. With this imperfect preparation I soon saw that I could do nothing, and was about to leave the room in despair, when it came into my head that the examiners were said to admire above all things originality. Now I am original or nothing. I determined...
...ability of reading and writing English. If the Freshman must have forced upon him required studies, is it not well that these studies should not be mathematical, since to many men the understanding of mathematical science is an utter impossibility; or classical, since the time spent in Greek and Latin is wasted in the case of those whose studies are scientific rather than linguistic? But to no one can a thorough knowledge of English come amiss. In advocating a substitution of English for mathematics and classics in the Freshman year, we do not deny that by far the best method...
...examinations for Second-Year Honors in Classics will take place May 8 and 10. The subjects will be the translation of the specified portions of Greek and Latin authors supposed to have been read by the candidates, and the translation of Greek and Latin at sight. The examinations in Greek and Latin composition will be postponed until the end of the term, and will then take the place of final examinations in Greek 4 and Latin 3, counting both for honors and for the year's mark in those courses...
Rivalling his great exemplar, he became a dig. He refused to countenance any such Freshman immoralities as beer and cigarettes; he would not even eat peanuts in Latin recitations. He never cut prayers, or said, "Not prepared." But yet, in spite of his noble character and many excellences, no handsome and popular upper-class man became his guide and friend, or instructed him in a Senior's philosophy. The upper-class men, in fact, came and hazed him. They turned an empty water-pail upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till...