Show SCHOOLBOYS ARE HANDICAPHED In These Piping Days of Pence They Have to Be Uptodate Washington Star My boy said Mr Blyl ins severely I am disappointed Very much disappointed dis-appointed His son ventured no comment but the expression of his face denoted sympathy sym-pathy Here you are away along in your teens and you havent gotten through either the Iliad or the Enead Your ignorance of the Latin and Greek classics clas-sics is deplorable Ive studied them all I could was the answer Xo doubt no doubt But its the way of the present generation When I was a boy we could parse and construe con-strue Latin verse by the time we were 15 years of age And I was reading Euripides before I was 17 The people peo-ple of a century ago or so were more learned They could talk in Latin the same as we talk English and they all had the classics at their tongues end I know it said the boy sadly Ive read about em But you ought not to overlook the fact that those people had a great advantage over us All they had to learn was what had happened up to their time and then they had nothing to do except study up their Greek and Latin They didnt have to learn the declaration of independence by heart and study the constitution of the United States They wrent obliged to find out all about George Washington and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and Daniel Webster Web-ster and all the rest of the real people They werent expected to keep track of what Aguinaldo is going to do next and whether we ought to take the Philippines Phil-ippines ° and what players the baseball club has bought or sold They had everything all laid out for them and they didnt have to study time tables I nor figure on how to get off an electric elec-tric car In a hurry Im willing to admit ad-mit that we arent as smart as the 1 boyswere a century or two ago but I 1 I cant help thinking there are extenuating extenuat-ing circumstances |