Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-12-27
WIDE INTEREST IN
LATIN BULLETIN
BY DIR. GRAY
Complimentary Letters By Doz-
ems Received From College
Presidents and School Men;
b.. S, Commissioner Approves,

| DR.. Edward Mcqueen Gray. presi-
dent of the University of New Mexico,
| has made a ten strike Immediately
with the recent bulletin issued by him
on Latin in the Secondary Schools" +"
BY his vigorous and practical hand
ling of a matter which is being wide
! ly discussed among educators every
where at present. DR.. Gray has
aroused lively interest among many
prominent leaders in educational
work Copies of the bulletin have
been acknowledged in series of the
most highly complimentary letters
and requests have come from any
sources for extra copies of the bulle-
tin for distribution
The conservative, Elmer c. Brown,
United States commissioner of edu-
cation, has written letter stating
that he is deeply interested in the
suggestions toward reform with some
of which he is in accord Some
sixty or more letters have been re-
ceived from college presidents, SUI
perintendents of city and state schools
and others all couched in the most
complimentary language,
The New York Journal and the
New York World will both print
portions Of the bulletin in their edi-
torial columns in a few days. Among
those from whom letters have been
received by DIR. Gray are Mason S.
Stone of Montpelier, superintendent
of schools of Vermont; President c..
ii .Livermore of Adelphi college,
Brooklyn; President Scarborough of
Wilberforce university; the superin-
tendent of the Texas schools, who
wants to republish the bulletin in the
Texas School Journal; the president
of st. Johns univercity, Collegeville,
Mimi; Hamilton Ford Allen. head of
the department of Greek in Washing
ton and Jefferson college; the presi-
dent of the University of Texas; the
superintendent of schools of Dallas,
Texas President Henry G. King of
Oberlin college, Ohio; the New York
commissioner of education, Albany;
president of the University of Flor
ida; president of the University OF
North Dakota; the president of Notre
Dame; the head of the department Of
education of the state of Kentucky;
President George III. Denny of Wash
ington and Lee university, who says,
among other things, that 1t may
cause thoughtful men to revise their
views on the question:; and many
others.
The bulletin by DR.. Gray has struck
at the root of a vital problem in mod
ern education; whether or not the
study of Latin, remain in the second
airy schools. DR.. Gray briefly and in
cisively shows how by correlating the
study of Latin with that of English, 1t
will prove Of the greatest practical
value to the student in the lower
schools in mastering his own ian-
guage, at the same time furnishing
him with a basis for the mastery of
all the romance languages. DR.. Gray
suggests common-sense methods OF
teaching the student Latin in this way,
without the strictly classical view
point, so that 1t viii prove OF i'm
mediate and real usefulness to him In
understanding the derivation of over
half the words of his own tongue, and
at the same time furnish the mental
gymnastics for which the study of the
old tongue is famed. DR.. Gray's bull
letin has had the immediate effect OF
injecting ginger and new ideas into
the discussion Of the problem now go
ing on all over the country
incidentally the bulletin will give
the University of New Mexico some
rather useful advertising in the world
of education.