Evening journal., 1922-12-02
THE EVENING JOURNAL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER q 1922

remember that their heads were
really intended for something more
than hat-racks.
zone OF the first things I try 20
get across" is thar the chief obfec-
tiohs TO Latin on the part OF many
or most students IL one OF Its i'm
portant advantages namely that %
| is hard. Even the youngest may
be taught 20 realize that Il Is no sign
OF real man or woman 20 avoid a
thing because II Is hard Boys
don't like football because Il IS easy.
In no sport do they got such hard
knocks, but Il makes men out OF
OF them. A boy who doesn't ike
football Is a sissy. pure and simple.
After the frst few lessons II Is
not difficult 90 get a boy 10 agree that
ne rs being trained TO keep hts mind
open 20 receive many impressions az
once. He fllly understands that IN
learning TO drive a car he must
grasp something more than enough
to step on the acceierator. The use
OF every individual bit OF mechanism
before him must be Instantly at his
command 30 much as that doing the
right thing at the right time be-
comes absolutely automatic. He
sees his eye and mind may be train
ed by Latin. which requires him 20
keep his thoughts fixed on voice,
mood, tense person, number, gender,
case, meaning, and use, ready 20 push
the right button without an instant's
hesitation. Win the thought that
he Is keeping himself out OF the
ditch, he will keep his mind as in
tent on these things in the Latin
class as he keeps 10 intent on the
road ahead OF him and the mechan-
ism about him the first time he
drives a car. And he likes TO think
he Is driving over a difficult road.
He can readily DO made 10 see that
the training which the study gives
him will be a vital part OF him all
his life.
After you have worked up the
competitive IDEA. appoint two lead
ers. the best scholars in the class
and let them choose sides Then
put on the board certain words
which they are 20 decline or con-
jugate. They go 70 the board and
the first one on each side oon1ugates.
say the present tense. II mistake
Is made. the leader marks II but
may give no help. and No. can not
20 on with the next tense till No. 1
has done his work correctly without
assistance. Some special credit or
exemption is given to the side which
holds the lead at the end OF the
week or month, the composition gets
70 be fast and furious. and woe 90
the dullard who is holding back his
ode. His leader and others will
take him IN hand and force him 20
learn the forms. frequently by the
use OF methods that you have often
wanted TO use but didn't dare.
II find 81 helpful 10 ask students
70 bring into class examples show
ing the variety OF ways IN which a
single Latin work may be used. Get
them TO translate magnum silentium, !
deep silence; masnum nomen, an
illustrious name; aria magma, spa
cious halls; mercer magma. high !
price; cogitatio magma. careful con-
sideration; olEmor magnus' loud
shouting.
Develop the spirit OF emulation IN /
presenting the best possible English, I
never, never, allowing ship shod |
work, nor the sO-called literal /
translation" Every one remembers |
the 'Varmintss' translation OF
Caesar, ubi so ventum est. initio !
rationis: Caesar. wherever the
wind blew him. initiated the ora
d. - - shnHFH-
and times better than Caesar. when
It was come there" etc, which 20
will hear in a surprisingly large num-
Der OF classes.
"Of far more importance than all
this discussion OF the sdvisability OF
making notifications in the kind.
amount. and order OF the material
read in the Latin course. Is the re-
vivifying. by every means at our
command. OF interest in the Latin |
class.
IT have an old unabridge diction-
airy which 1 find OF great value.
Every year give each student four
pages from this book and ask him
to underline in black every work OF
Latin derivation, and in red every
work OF Greek derivation. then count
the total number OF words on each
page and note the number or per-
centage OF Latin and Greek deriva-
tives.
Il try 10 keep before my students
the Latin words in their arithmetic.
geometry, trigonometry,
grammar, rhetoric. physics. and
and 10 show them that in
they are talking Latin all
the time. Every bone IN the body
from the Uranium down past the
point at the upper part OF the ulna
which we call the funny bone be-
cause It borders on the humerus, to
the tarsus, metatarsus, and pha-
langes. has its Latin name. So with
every muscle. nerve, and organ, to-
gether with every disease that ever
lfiicts them, and the medicine that
cures the disease. Pupils soon see
that they are peripatetic classical
and rather Ike the idea. (
In the third and fourth years par I
.icularly / insist on careful study OF
he vocabulary in the text as a most
smeans on increasing their
itore OF English synonyms.
Il believe 1t pays to take five min
ties at the beginning OF the period r
% read 20 the class passages. not y
from the great English \
,oets. not only TO give them an idea 8
# what poetry is, in their own tongue a
,ut also to show how much our Eng L
ish poets are indebted TO Virgil and +
Homer and ovid. and many others. 2
{ gives pupils ideas which Will help !
hem in their own TRANSACTIONS. ,,
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