Raffles Institution (Year 1-4)
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Thank you naggo-nitemare
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firefly38:
Sir Stamford Raffles created the motto in Latin, or future generations of Rafflesians changed the motto to Latin? Afterall, Stamford Raffles was from England, so it made more sense for RI motto to be in English (easier to remember and pronounce), right?
That's the Raffles motto. But I should point out that 'auspicium melioris aevi' literally means 'divinations of a better time'. The history is interesting: 'auspicium' means 'looking at birds' (from 'avis' and 'spice'), which the Romans used to do to predict the future. 'Melioris' means 'better', and 'aevi' means 'a period of time, an age or span of years'. Some unkind people have joked that it should mean 'looking for a good time'.
- old relevant discussion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Raffles_Institution_%28Secondary%29#Auspicium_Melioris_Aevi for linguistics buffs. -
autolycus:
Wow! Thank you, autolycus!!! :salute:firefly38:
Sir Stamford Raffles created the motto in Latin, or future generations of Rafflesians changed the motto to Latin? Afterall, Stamford Raffles was from England, so it made more sense for RI motto to be in English (easier to remember and pronounce), right?
That's the Raffles motto. But I should point out that 'auspicium melioris aevi' literally means 'divinations of a better time'. The history is interesting: 'auspicium' means 'looking at birds' (from 'avis' and 'spice'), which the Romans used to do to predict the future. 'Melioris' means 'better', and 'aevi' means 'a period of time, an age or span of years'. Some unkind people have joked that it should mean 'looking for a good time'.
- old relevant discussion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Raffles_Institution_%28Secondary%29#Auspicium_Melioris_Aevi for linguistics buffs. -
autolycus:
'auspicium melioris aevi' literally means 'divinations of a better time'.
How do you actually pronounce it?
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Something like au-speak-eeum mell-ee-ories ah-evi. Roughly.
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autolycus:
Something like au-speak-eeum mell-ee-ories ah-evi. Roughly.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auspicium%20melioris%20aevi -
verykiasu2010:
At which point you'd get involved in the big debate about whether you want to pronounce a dead language according to usage or according to science.autolycus:
Something like au-speak-eeum mell-ee-ories ah-evi. Roughly.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auspicium%20melioris%20aevi
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The old boys still remember this motto in latin. I heard my hub mention a few times
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csc:
The old boys still remember this motto in latin. I heard my hub mention a few times
Not just the old boys. I spent only 2 yrs at the Mt Sinai campus but I still remember every single word of the school song. Oddly, I couldn't remember anything of my sec sch song which I spent 4 yrs singing. -
naggo-nitemare:
oops...and the 'old' girls too ... mine is the other way round ... i cannot forget my sec school song because it is so meaningful and our school motto is in latin too. Moribus Modestus\", in translation from Latin, it means \"Demure and Resolute\".csc:
The old boys still remember this motto in latin. I heard my hub mention a few times
Not just the old boys. I spent only 2 yrs at the Mt Sinai campus but I still remember every single word of the school song. Oddly, I couldn't remember anything of my sec sch song which I spent 4 yrs singing.
The words of the school song I can still remember the tune vividly.
\"We cannot all be heroes and thrill a hemisphere,
With some great daring venture, some deed that mocks at fear.
But we can fill a lifetime with kindly acts and true,
There's always noble service for noble souls to do.
We're not all blessed with beauty nor everyone with brain,
But each from every other has something good to gain.
So let us make an effort to keep it as a rule,
That each one needs the other within the Katong school.
Then let us fill the hours with minutes truly spent,
In helping one another towards a true content.
So let us serve in honour and work for selfless fame,
For credit of our country and glory of her name.\"
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