Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Club at its Empire Day dinner Saturday evening at the Union, when officers for the year were elected. His address was devoted particularly to an explanation of the strategy of the campaign of the spring of 1918 on the western front, and he also emphasized the importance of Anglo-American co-operation in the future. Three members of the club who saw service overeas also spoke...
...article entitled "A New Menace to Education", which is appearing in a current magazine, John Jay Chapman '84, attacks the new plan of several American colleges of abolishing Latin and Greek as entrance requirements. He makes a strong defense of the classics as an essential part of University education, and makes a particularly effective plea for the continuance f Latin...
...with good teaching could learn enough Latin in six months to get into an American college", says Mr. Chapman, "and just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...
...Universities have decided that the Latin phrase-book is too hard for the American brain. It is difficult and unnecessary. The real reason that our Universities are throwing over Latin is that Latin has been badly taught, and it is easier to throw Latin over than to bring in good teaching. But what a calamitous state for the learned...
...then, we are to carry on the ideals of American democracy, this paternalistic movement throughout the country must be halted. We must aim, as we have been aiming, only with ever increasing vigor, to raise the average mental power of the people through better education-- in the broadest sense of the word. Such a program can best be carried out through the colleges. Indeed a certain amount of compulsion is often an absolute necessity in our American universities. This does not mean at all that they should increase compulsion in order to force down the national lever against...