A Handbook for Latin Clubs Part 1

A Handbook for Latin Clubs.

by Various.

PREFACE

The Latin Club in secondary schools is the result of the incessant demand that our Latin instruction must be vivified. Many teachers feel the need of supplementary work in their Latin teaching, but they have been handicapped because of a lack of material as well as a lack of time. This is especially true of the teacher in the small town. To help meet this demand is the purpose of this book.

The programs have purposely been made too long for one session in order that the teacher may have some choice in selection, and that, in case all references are not accessible, enough may be secured to insure a reasonably varied program.

I would suggest that the Club purchase as many Perry pictures and Berlin photographs of cla.s.sical subjects as possible and that its members cooperate with the city library board for the purchase of such books as are essential, in case there is no school fund available for this purpose. Some high school alumnus in whose heart there is appreciation of Rome's gift to us might present a book to his Alma Mater. Another might offer some suitable magazines, properly bound.

Of a Latin Club, as of most school work, it may be said that _usus est optimus magister_, and especially applicable in this connection are the words of Horace: _Dimidium facti, qui coepit_.

Omaha, Nebraska,

June, 1916

THE VALUE OF LATIN

"Latin is the most logically constructed of all the languages, and will help more effectually than any other study to strengthen the brain centres that must be used when any reasoning is required."

--Dr. Frank Sargent Hoffman

THE LATIN LANGUAGE.

Mosaics in History. Arthur Gilman. _Chautauqua_. Vol. ii, p. 317.

_Ill.u.s.trated History of Ancient Literature_. John D. Quackenbos.

P. 305.

A SHORT STORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Jessie A. Chase. _Saint Nicholas_. Vol. xxvi, p. 593.

THE VALUE OF LATIN.

The Advantages which accrue from a Cla.s.sical Education. Caroline R. Gaston. _Education_. Vol. xxiii, p. 257.

The Study of Caesar. Adeline A. Knight. _Education_. Vol. viii, p. 188.

A Plea for Culture. T.W. Higginson. _Atlantic Monthly_. Vol. xix, p. 29.

The Nature of Culture Studies. R.M. Wenley. _School Review_. Vol.

xiii, p. 441.

The Teaching of Second Year Latin. H.W. Johnston. _School Review_.

Vol. x, p. 72.

ESSAY.

What I have gained from the Study of Latin.

THE VALUE OF LATIN AS A PREPARATION FOR THE STUDY OF MEDICINE.

The Advantages that accrue from a Cla.s.sical Education. Caroline R.

Gaston. _Education_. Vol. xxiii, p. 351.

The Value of Greek and Latin to the Medical Student. Victor C.

Vaughan. _School Review_. Vol. xiv, p. 389.

_Latin and Greek in American Education_. Francis W. Kelsey.

Chap. iv.

THE PLACE OF THE HUMANITIES IN THE TRAINING OF ENGINEERS.

_Latin and Greek in American Education_. Francis W. Kelsey.

Chap. iv.

The Value of the Humanistic Studies as a Preparation for the Study of Engineering. Herbert C. Sadler. _School Review_. Vol. xiv, p. 400.

THE VALUE OF LATIN AS A TRAINING FOR PRACTICAL LIFE.

_Latin and Greek in American Education_. Francis W. Kelsey.

Chap. iv.

_Bulletin of the Missouri State Normal School_ (1909). P. 19.

The Practical Value of Humanistic Studies. Wm. Gardner Hale.

_School Review_. Vol. xix, p. 657.

THE VALUE OF LATIN TO THE BUSINESS GIRL.

Latin as a Vocational Study in the Commercial Course. Albert S.

Perkins. _The Cla.s.sical Journal_. Vol. x, p.7.

ROME'S GIFT TO US.

The Indebtedness of the English Language to the Latin. Federico Garlanda. _Chautauqua_. Vol. xi, p. 10.

_A First Year Latin Book_. (Introduction.) Wm. Gardner Hale.

THE VALUE OF LATIN AS A TRAINING FOR THE LAWYER.

_Bulletin of the Missouri State Normal School_ (1909). P. 17.

_Will Latin follow Greek out of the High School_. Joseph P. Behm.

_Cla.s.sical Weekly_. Vol. vii, p. 25.

POEM.--A Plea for the Cla.s.sics. EUGENE FIELD.

POMPEII

"There is nothing on the earth, or under it, like Pompeii."

--W. D. Howells

POEM.--Pompeii.

_Poetical Works_. Mrs. Sigourney. P. 270.

THE CITY OF POMPEII BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION.

_The Last Days of Pompeii_. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P. 89.

THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII.

_The Last Days of Pompeii_. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P. 366.