| Show IS SORE ON LATIN one man who sees no manner of use in its study latin Is a duin dum tool fool thing I 1 feel fee that way today to day my boy works at latin and he requires 80 per cent of to pass something else I 1 do the other 20 per cent myself the new french pronunciation is what puts me at a disadvantage when I 1 was a boy bonus was simply bone us now it is anoe use but when a thing is a dum fool thing the way you say it doesn doean t matter says a writer in th the bool lovers magazine isn t it time that ot 01 r schools waken up to the fact that we can get along very well averi over here without latin if we must have it give us three weeks of latin roots from an old spelling book and let it go at that the teacher told me upon inquiry that latin gives a boy culture I 1 told her in two words that I 1 didn dian t believe in an any such thing you might as well scra scratch teft a boy a back to pio pi duce culture I 1 know from observe tion as well as from experience that latin produces obstinacy and crank ness and deceit and fickleness and hatred and indigestion and lying and sore eyes and a strong tendency to ward ard profanity I 1 admit that latin has its place but it belongs with oth er roman creations now dead it if we were the least bt bit short of studies there would be ome excuse but we re not |
