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John E. Rexine '51 delivered the LATIN SALUTATORY DISSERTATION this morning while approximately 95 percent of his audience listened in utter bewilderment. After all, it is said, a gentleman need not know Latin, he needs only to have forgotten it. A summary for the puzzled follows...
...word by word, line by line. That night I was awakened roughly and was launched on a period of some twelve days of further grilling. I was fed scantily . . . I lost some 20 pounds, and was maliciously subjected to hours of shouting and screaming, or alternately isolated in utter, dead, maddening silence...
...cash, and married to a termagant wife, he takes any job that comes along. His first is reporter for an Indian "extreme-wing" publication. Sent to interview a swami called the "Sage of the Wilderness," he quickly falls under the old chap's spell. "Please, master," he asks, "utter a few words of wisdom and . . . comfort the reading classes." But the swami's brand of wisdom is P. T. Barnum's. "Canst thou," he inquires soulfully, "spare me thy trousers, thy jacket, thy shirt, thy shoes, thy cufflinks, thy watch, every accessory thou hast on thy person...
...Crimson looked as bad as the weather in the first period, performing with an utter disregard for the cardinal lacrosse rule of teamwork. Meanwhile, Dartmouth, led by attackman Md Lyon, unleashed a goal-a-minute barrage against unprotected goalie, Syd Clark...
...life. I want nothing but to be the heart of Perón. Because though I do my best to understand him and learn his marvelous ways, whenever he makes a decision, I barely mumble. Whenever he speaks, I hardly utter a single word. Whenever he gives advice, I scarcely dare make a suggestion. What he sees I hardly glimpse. But I see him with the eyes of my soul . . . And I have pledged myself to collect the hopes of the Argentine people and empty them in the marvelous heart of Perón so that he may turn them...