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Esperanto has long been the joke of the linguistic world. Its curious conglomeration of Germanic roots and Latin terminations, its complicated syntax depending upon an accurate inflexion, and above all its bizarre combination of the utterly strange and the too familiar seem to have fitted it peculiarly never to be used. A few pedagogical monstrosities might amuse themselves with translating the masterpieces of other literatures into its artificially simple rhetoric, but that so practically minded a person as a minister of education would try to plant it in schools already overburdened by the attempt to combine the useful...
...lavished most affection and attention. His edition of the poet is a masterpiece of annotation and, incidentally, is a poem in itself. He collected many of his essays and reviews into volumes which became famous for their profundity and their humor, but his most solid achievement was his Historical Syntax of Classical Greek, the first Greek grammar on strictly scientific principles. For years he had expressed himself informally on every subject under the sun in the back pages of the American Journal of Philology, which he founded. His department, called "Brief Mention," became among other things a hall of fame...
Practical French Exercises, Translation, Grammatical Exercises, Grammatical Theory. Written Composition, Pronunciation and Diction, Vocabulary and Formation of Words, Syntax, Conversation, Diction Phonetics, French Literature, History of France, Geography, Philology, Vocabulary Technique, Commercial Correspondence, and several other commercial courses. Ample opportunity will be found on the voyage to confer with advisers as to the courses to pursue...
...opinions as to which class of problems is least important, but one will be slow to decide which kind of talk is least educational. Similarly, if one finds that one group of students talk as incessantly about the problems of football as another group does about the problems of syntax or historical criticism, one may be certain as to which group of problems is less important, but one can not be too certain as to which kind of talk is less educational. The ability to solve a problem whose factors are live, headstrong, rampant human beings is probably as much...
...orations for the Manilian law and for Archias, and from Virgil's Aeneid, I, II, IV, or I, II, VI, with questions on the subject-matter, literary and historical allusions, and, in the case of Virgil, on prosody, and passages for Elementary and Advanced Latin Composition. Questions on forms, syntax, and the idioms of the language may be asked in connection with any part of the examination...