Show DEAD LANGUAGES ILL tho the so called cd dead languages lanS WILL V V drop out of oe our high schools and colleges es Certainly the records of work on which the diplomas are being awarded give a little less space every evelY year to these subjects Latin still has hasa hasI a large place but Greek Greel Is almost lost to sight As a practical business proposition It docs does not seem much use for tor the ordinary ordinary or or- bo boy to study Greek today French and German help him to keep closer in to touch with the current of ot modern life A business man finds II no Greek in his newspaper he Is never nover called on to write n n. letter In either that language or Latin At the tho same time when a a. student drops the tho classics there are arc certain loss losses s that ar arc arp not made good If he ho studies the old languages particularly Greek he follows the thought of r certain cort certain cor- cor t tain ln great philosophers which u mint n t enlarge his tics conception of or life lite The classic world worM emphasized ideas that are arc badly needed toda today The old philosophers philosophers philosophers phil phil- dwelt upon the obligation of the citizen to the state obedience to law the necessity of a temperate well- well rounded balance of all tho the elements necessary to successful life Ute It was a minded healthy-minded philosophy The stu stu- students student's dents dent's thought Is filled with noble images of or heroism self-sacrifice self and amI civic spirit The student of or the modern languages languages lan Ian spends his time very largely on trivial plays plas novels and conversation exercises whose whoso philosophy Is not elevating elevating elevating ele ele- or ennobling Ho Is closer to the tho current of or daily dally life liCe but has received re received received re- re no rio Inspiration of or s spirit It is of or course useless fo u o turn back the educational tide The business businessman man must stud study the aspects of or life that bring him tho the closest to the modern modern modern mod mod- ern world But American life lite needs men of thought as well as men of ac ac- ac tion Those who aspire spire to be writers preachers t teachers can not afford to neglect the ideals of the wonderful won won- de ful old classics |