Probing Question: Is Latin valuable for today's students?
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 11:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Yale University's famous motto is Lux et Veritas, Latin for "light and truth" while Princeton's crest reads Dei Sub Numine Viget ("Under God's power she flourishes"). The University of Pennsylvania based its cautionary motto -- Sine Moribus Vanae or "Letters without morals are useless" -- on a line in one of the Roman poet Horace's odes. But in 1898, when someone pointed out that the line could also be translated as "Loose women without morals", the University rushed to revise the wording.