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Show IS "SORE" ON LATIN. One Man Who Sees No Manner of Use in Its Study. Latin is n dum-fool thing. I feel that way to-day. My boy works at Latin and he requires SO per cent of something to pass something else. I do tho othor 20 per cent myself. Thu new French pronunciation Is what puts me at a disadvantage. When I was a boy bonus was simply bonc-us, now It Is bnoo-use; but when a thing is a dum-fool thing the way you sny It doesn't matter" says a writer In the Dook-Loveis' Magazine. "Isn't It tlmo that our schools waken up to tho fact that wo can get along vory woll over hero without Latin? If wo must havo It, plvo us three weeks of Latin roots from nn old spelling book nnd let It go nt that. The teacher told mo upon Inquiry thnt Latin gives a boy culture. I told her In two words that I didn't bellovo In nny such thing. You might a3 well Bcrateh n boy's back to pro-duco pro-duco culture. I know from observation observa-tion ns well as from experience that Latin produces obstinacy, and crankiness, cranki-ness, nnd deceit, nnd fickleness, nnd hatred, and Indigestion, and lying, and fcoro eyes, and n strong tendency to-vnrd to-vnrd profanity. I admit that Latin I has Its place, but It belongs with oth- or Homan creations now dead. If wo wero tho least bit short of studies thero .would bo somo excuse, but we're not." |