1 The Class of 1984 included Loretta Lynch, who would later become the first African-American woman to be Attorney General of the United States. 2  In 1990, Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Old English cancer spreading sore, cancer (also canceradl), from Latin cancer a crab, later, malignant tumor, from Greek karkinos, which, like the Modern English word, has three meanings: crab, tumor, and the zodiac constellation (late Old English), from PIE root *qarq- to be hard (like the shell of a crab); cf.
Latin. 1  an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L. 2  one of the forms of literary Latin, as Medieval Latin, Late Latin, Biblical Latin, or Liturgical Latin, or of nonclassical Latin, as Vulgar Latin.