Re: RC: letters

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/20/99 1:43:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
reshan@deyr.ultranet.com writes:

<< >VMD=Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris or the latin version of 
 >  DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine)-Univ. of Pennsylvania is the only one
 >that
 >      confers their degrees in latin 
 
 
    Ahem. My Tufts degree is in Latin. But then, my LAtin professor always
 stressed that word order was much less important in latin than in English 
<G>.
            --CMNewell, DVM  >>

My mom still has my grandmother's Masters degree, from Willamette University 
in Salem, Oregon, circa 1909.  I haven't laid eyes on it for awhile so can't 
remember the language in which it was written (considering that is in foreign 
languages, and one of Grandma's languages was Latin, I doubt if it bothered 
her ability to read it), but the thing that interested me was that it was 
written on actual sheepskin--hence the old phrase about "earning your 
sheepskin."  BTW--this lady had a minor in mathematics along with her 
language major.  She married a few years after earning her Masters, continued 
teaching through having 4 kids, was widowed prior to the Great Depression, 
and managed to provide a fairly decent life for those 4 kids by teaching 
German, Latin, and calculus in a small-town high school.  (Needless to say, 
the concept of women not being particularly fragile or helpless was not a 
recent concept in our family--my other granny was equally talented and 
self-sufficient...)

Heidi


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