Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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I PARTIMENTUM LITTERARUM ANGLICARUM Reading the authorized text books and reporting on the approved books . . . No, not “Archie” com- ics .. . Memorizing, ah, uh, choice selections . . . Grammar ... A preposition, something you should never end a sentence with . . . Speling . . . Vocabu- lary work . . . What does “censure” mean, sir? . . . Poetry . . . Oral and written composition ... You boys will never write good . . . Preparation for the N.M.S.Q.T., S.A.T., A.Z.A. . . . Study of the works of the Bard of Stratford . . . Who? . . . “To be or not to be?” . . Manter Hall, the student’s plague . . . What, more Shakespeare? . . . And more . . . and . . . Mr. Samuel Resnick First Row: Messrs. Zoll, F. Sullivan, O’Keefe, Taylor, Russo, Finn, L. McCarthy, Mc- Namara, Jackson. Second Row: Messrs. S. Rosenthal, Spracklin, Smith, Gearin, Daly, Roche, Spector, Deely. Stop, you’re breaking my heart. Now look here, DiTullio

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p AR TIM p:xrrM l i n t; i a iu’m ant i ( a ri m This stuff is Greek and Latin to me . . . Impor- tance of Latin ... If those Ruys with the togas ever make a come-back, we’i ' e all “in” . . . Transla- tions . . . Vocabulary . . . Declensions . . . Conjuga- tions . . . Amo, amas . . . Yes, dear, I do mean it . , , As I was trotting down the corridor . . . Caesar , , , Gaul was divided into three parts . . . Cicero, Virgil, Homer, Ovid . . . Poetry, in Greek, yet . . . Catiline, the villain . . . Attic Greek . . . Was it written in the cellar, too . . . The Aeneid . . . Iliad . , , What, Troy again? . , , Recitation . . , Sight tests. Studder . . . Word order . . . The Boards . . . Burning the midnight oil. Mr. Joseph W. Hopkinson First Row: Messrs. Sakey, Dolan, G. Sullivan, O’Calla- h a n, Hopkinson, Head; Cleary, P. Driscoll, Jameson, J. Zanor, Miller. Second Row: Messrs. C. McCarthy, O’Brian, O’Shea, Parker, Desmond, Locke, Partridge. Hmmmmm! ! The book isn’t always right.

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PARTIMENTUM LINGUARUM RECENTORIUM Where’s Max? . . . German vocabulary . . . French grammar . . . Vice versa . . . Verbs; regular, irreg- ular . . . Aren’t they all irregular? . . . Flyers . . . Pronunciation . . . Through the nose . . . Extra credit . . . Vocabulary lists . . . Idiom sheets . . . “Emil und Die Detektive” . . . Guy de Maupassant . . . Written exercises . . . Great Short Stories . . . Life in France and Germany . . . Colomba ... La plume de ma tante, nicht wahr? . . . The language laboratory . . . Lists for the Boards . . . Russian on the five-year plan . . . Pamphlets . . . What does “nyet” mean, Mr. Khrushchev? First Row: Messrs. Chester, Gordon, Fontaine, Morrill, Head; McGuffin, Clark, Giar- raputo. Second Row : Hoelzel, Triantafel, Scully, Cameron, Donovan. 1st das nicht ein . . . Messrs. Emmet T. .Morill and Albert .J. Van Steen- bergen. Je mange, tu manges, il mange . . .