Word: rome
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Athletic Committee he played an important part in organizing the sports of the intercollegiate world. As president of the Archaeological Institute of America he placed that body on a firm foundation. He had an important part in establishing the American Schools of Classical Studies in Athens and Rome. He greatly contributed to the success of the famous performance of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles in 1881. As editor and writer of school and college text books in Greek he was with professor Goodwin the most widely known of American Grecians, both in this country and England. Probably no other teacher...
...Bacon, Shakespere, and Ben Jonson, putting them into up-to-date American English and giving them an American code of morality? It is so annoying to have to bother with an old idiom. It is for this reason, too, that a modern writer should tell us all about Rome for he not only is in a better position to judge of the life of the first century A.D. than would be a Pliny the Younger or a Juvenal, but he would give the information in so accessible...
...fellowship will be required to spend at least one year in travel and study in Europe, under the general direction of the Council of the School. With certain conditions he will have the right of entering and the privilege of working under the direction of the American Academy in Rome...
...nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century. We must prepare our young men to meet these complex conditions...
...past is stored with object lessons of great value now. However, a few years of required Latin in school will not help us on the road. For all have future scholars they will only serve to waste the energy which might have been thrown into the direct study of Rome herself, of the splendor of her institutions, and the greatness of her sons. By all means let us continue to teach Latin in American schools, but let us not force it on those who might utilize their time to a greater advantage in other ways...