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Sweet builds up vocabulary by using slides. The "Quid est?" routine is only the beginning. "Juvenis oculum gerit" Sweet will suddenly say. "Juvenis pedem gerit . . . Juvenis manum gerit." Gradually the class begins to realize that "gerit" means "has"-until Sweet leaps ahead again. "Juvenis vestum gerit . . . Juvenis gladium gerit . . . Juvenis bellum gerit." By that time, the class realizes that gerit" has a whole "area" of meanings, from "has" to "hold" to "wage" to "wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hot Latin | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Pedem et vestigia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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