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...What we dream of being able to do is to lay hands on the library of some average Roman of medium culture. That would give us a wonderful insight into Latin literature of that time. It is not impossible that we might even find the text of some Latin popular comedies, which are known to have existed but which have never been found...
When the Middlebury Campus views with severe alarm and stoic horror the erection of such a dormitory as the proposed Varsity, now planned for the Mount Auburn regions, it ignores the havoc wrought by time and neglect. Such lavishness may at first appear too Roman for a New England college but experience has shown that the saviour of youthful virility lies in the fact that eventually the "porters" will dwindle into a lone and not over magnificent janitor; that the "maids and bellboys", if such there be, will fade into legend: that the pomp of circumstance will prove disappointingly evanescent...
...interested in the question as my father, Edward Everett Hale, who was an Unitarian minister, once told me that the only Churches which could use Latin in public were the Roman and the Unitarian. The question came up when my father's organist asked if he had any objection to the singing of "Integer vitae" in Church. ARTHUR HALE...
...satin and brocade, powdered wigs, billowing hoopskirts and lacy pantaloons, Smith College teachers and their consorts last week played at opera. In the gay frillery of Georg Friedrich Handel's time (1685-1759), instead of in Roman and Egyptian robes, they gave his nearly forgotten Julius Caesar its first U. S. showing. Professor Oliver Larkin staged the production; Professor Werner Josten directed...
...school] includes in its plan the religions of the Protestant Christians, the Roman Catholics and the Jews. That these three parties should live in harmony and cooperate in civil and secular relations, is reasonable and time-tested. But these religions and beliefs are in deadly antagonism. The Protestant Christians through all their history have believed and testified that Christ is very God and very man. The Jews crucified Christ and have persistently declared He was only a man, and even a man worthy of death. He has no special value either as a man or a Savior. The Protestant declares...