Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of Latin or Greek as a requisite for the A. B. degree at Harvard is a conservative requirement for this degree that still holds sway at many Eastern colleges. Yale and Princeton, for example, are even more hidebound in demanding the full number of units in one of these languages at school; both demand further one year of college work in the Classics, but this last has at least the grace of making the student's eventual degree to some extent dependent on his college studies...
...Juvenal Satires in Latin" Professor Peterkin, Sever...
...Juvenal Satires in Latin", Professor Peterkin, Sever...
...with present educational standards, the basis for determining the degree to be received is still antiquated. Certainly whether a man is awarded an A.B. or an S.B. should depend entirely on his college work. Instead, the candidate for an A.B. is obliged to show evidence of three years of Latin in school, or two years of Greek, or of their equivalent. Since comparatively few men continue in ancient languages in college, the result is a separation of graduates based to a great extent on their pre-college studies. From this arises the present conglomeration of degrees. Many men concentrating...
...that distinguish these degrees are unknown, and only the vague idea that a graduate with an S.B. is probably learned in Science, and an A.B. in Arts, exists. But the reasoning is sound enough; much more so than the desire to maintain an outworn tradition from the time when Latin and Greek were the two poles of a liberal education. On the practical side, the present system is sometimes not brought to the attention of students in Modern Languages until it is too late for them to add the extra quantity of the humanities that would give them...