Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coming on now in school have something in their mind's eye besides the examination paper. Let the college examine if it will, but on a saner basis. Instead of finding out whether or not a man has read so many books of Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil, let them discover if he can read and write Latin intelligently. From the individual's point of view, his ability to talk French well is certainly more inducive to the continued study of French literature and thought than the knack of setting down verbatim the translation of four or five prescribed books...
...address will be made by Mr. Albert S. Perkins of Dorchester High School, the president of the local section. Following this a talk on "The Questionnaire of the Boston Council of Ancient Languages" will be given by Miss Louise Adams of the East Boston High School. "A Review of Virgil" will be the subject of the next address, to be made by Dr. D. O. S. Lowell, headmaster of the Roxbury Latin School. The subsequent speeches are as follows: "The Stupidest of Losses," by Dr. Josiah Bridge '84, of Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn.; "Latin in Modern Education," by Dr. Payson...
...Review of Virgil. Dr. D. O. S. Lowell, headmaster, Roxbury Latin School...
...Walling, December 1, 1913, and John Spargo, December 9, 1913, both in Emerson D); World League to Secure Peace (Hamilton Holt, April 7, 1914, in Emerson D); pacifism (Norman Angell, February 14, 1914, in Emerson D, and April 16, 1914, in the New Lecture Hall); Christian Science (Virgil O. Strickler, March 13, 1914, in Emerson D); Woman Suffrage (Helen Todd, November 8, 1913, Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, April 2, 1914, and Norman Hapgood, March 20, 1914, all in Emerson D); Scientific Management (F. W. Taylor, three lectures in 1913, in a College room). In all these cases, in accordance with...
...locomotive engineer, who, having finished beginner's Latin, is going on with advanced work for pleasure. Railway clerks, men in mining camps, lawyers and doctors, ministers and court reporters are fellow students. A girl who gives her occupation as tub mending is deep in the translation of Virgil. Instructors of science and mathematics feeling that their training has been too specialized are studying Latin, and Catholic sisters are taking courses to improve their teaching. Evidently under such a system many people, heretofore unable to receive a liberal education, are being helped and they vindicate the introduction of this progressive method...