Latin
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Interesting item from the Art Newspaper … some clipping along the way: In 1937, the Warburg Institute, recently arrived in London from Hamburg, found itself homeless. Permission was given for it to move into the Imperial Institute, but there was no shelving, which made the library unusable. Month after month, the director Fritz Saxl sent…
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A couple weeks ago we had an item from the Old Gold and Black on Ted Gellar-Goad’s efforts to gamify Latin prose comp (Gamifying Latin Prose Comp). Science Daily has an item in the same vein, but with a bit more detail for folks wondering about the method: Choose your character, write spells, map the…
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Not really sure if I (personally) would call these pretentious, but your mileage may vary (insert smiley here): 9 extremely pretentious Latin and Greek plurals (The Week)
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This one was mentioned on the Classics list last week … YLE’s Nuntii Latini was the subject of a feature in the New York Times. Here’s the first bit: Leah Whittington, an English professor at Harvard, catches the news bulletins on her iPod while strolling to classes. Daniel Blanchard, a professional countertenor in Paris, used…
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From the Old Gold & Black: In a classroom where students battle away at mythological creatures and Latin grammar, Dr. Gellar-Goad has reinvigorated an out-dated course and brought new teaching methods with a twist of adventure. In his first year as a Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classical Languages, Gellar-Goad has developed a…
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