Posted by Philip (139.140.133.141) on February 06, 2001 at 20:54:47:
In Reply to: Re: A Call For Arms posted by Kirsten on February 06, 2001 at 14:53:14:
If done properly, this is not something we merely pin ourselves to. And it certinaly should not be of anything so ephemeral as to go out of fashion withing five years. The specific symbols don't even have to have a particularly strong meaning. Remember: nobody is certain why Bowdoin uses a sun. But we do, and we have for 200 years, and we recognize it as ours.
Latin, despite the hard time I give to my classics-major roomate, is still important. It is the common language of scholarship, as any Bio major will tell you. And it, unlike English, is no longer affected by the changing nuances of meaning.
This is not about the here-and-now but the far future. It is about moving away from the year-by-year swing of the house to a formal recognition that we are part of a continuing line.
- Philip
: I don't see why we need to pin ourselves down with a logo, symbol, insignia, coat or arms or motto. We all have different ideas or images of Howell, and what the house leaders are this year's affiliates comes up with will not represent how people five years from now may feel.
: And why do we have to have our motto in a dead language? How elist, or more old-school can we get? What's wrong with English, a language all of us affiliates understand, and not a language that no one speaks anymore and only certain house members even understand.