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Semitic 2.--Hebrew.--Syntax. Extensive Reading in the Old Testament. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, at 9. Dr. Davey...
...acknowledge that, in the past; courses in Greek and in Roman literature have been sacrificed to men who intended to teach. Interest has been centred not on thought or method of expression, but on classification of verb forms or irregularities of syntax. A knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles...
...fashion and has passed as all fashions do. "Instead of teaching with Latin and Greek words we should deal with Greek and Latin things. . . . Imagine the content of such courses as Latin 10 and Greek 10 and 11 required for admission to College instead of the present syntax and inflections. . . . Leave the Latin language to the philologists; so wretched and grotesque a shadow as the Latin now in the average mind is not worth fighting for." We have heard the claim advanced by a modern Greek that classic Greek should be taught as a living language because modern Greek...
...great quantities, the time of the Norman Conquest. This foreign tongue brought with it many alterations to the native tongue. Just so the Latin language was brought into the territory we now call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right we may call modern French Latin. We may do this with even better right in the latter case, for French has not suffered...
After a series of brilliant engagements in Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington and Brooklyn, DeWolf Hopper and his excellent company, will begin his annual Boston engagement at the Tremont next week, presenting, for the first time in this city, the funniest of all comic operas - "Dr. Syntax." DeWolf Hopper will essay the role of a good-natured, up-to-date pedagogue. The locale of this, the latest and greatest of the comedian's light comic operatic successes, is laid in a charming country village in New England. The jovial "Dr. Syntax" esteems it his duty to make everybody happy, and, luckily...