  The Academy of Latin and Greek, To The Chancellor of Chautauqua University: My Dear Doctor Vincent: It gives me great pleasure to be able to offer this summer, at Chautauqua, a course in Latin and Greek of unusual merit. Of the assistant teachers, Mr. Otto is already favorably known to our pupils of last summer, and to many correspondence students as an energetic and thorough teacher. Dr. Bevier will be a great acquisition for Chautauqua. He was graduated from Rutgers with first honors, having also during his course won honors in Latin and Greek at the inter-collegiate contest. After graduation he studied at Johns Hopkins University (which conferred on him the degree Ph.D.), and then continued his studies in Europe. He was a student at the American School at Athens, Greece, and is now an enthusiastic and successful teacher. Although our session in Latin last year began a week late, and we suffered from other disadvantages, I believe our numbers in Latin reached a total unparalleled in the history of Chautauqua. What was, however, especially gratifying, was the improved quality of scholarship manifested by students. For this summer we offer the following course: 1. Roman Law (using the Institutes of Justinian) with information. Not only every lawyer, but every teacher of Latin to-day should familiarize “thon”self with Roman law, lying, as it does, at the base of Roman civilization. 2. The Latin of the early Church Fathers.—Recent publication and discussion have rendered so prominent the influence of the early Latin Fathers on church doctrine that every clergyman, present or prospective, will do well to examine this question for himself. 3. Comparative Philology.—(Every student preparing to enter either of these three classes should at once communicate with the principal, that there may be no delay at the opening of the session, in securing apparatus.) 4. Plato.—Apology and Crito, Tyler’s Ed. (Appletons.) 5. Cicero.—De Natura Deorum, Stickney’s Ed. (Ginn, Heath & Co.) 6. Homer.—Odyssey. 7. Virgil.—Æneid. 8. Horace.—Chase’s Ed. (Eldridge & Bro’s.) 9. Cicero.—Orations. 10. Xenophon.—Anabasis. 11. CÆsar.—De Bello Gallico (two hours per day). 12. Beginners in Greek. Harkness’s Text-Book, last ed. (Appletons.) 13. Beginners in Latin (three hours per day by the induction method). ?? Latin students must have the “Hand-Book of Latin Synonyms.” (Ginn, Heath & Co.) I hope you will give us at Chautauqua zealous students, who will concentrate their work on Latin and Greek, but especially two classes: Teachers of Latin and Greek, and those who are absolutely BEGINNERS. A clear-headed student who doesn’t know a word of Latin, can, by devoting six weeks to it, secure FIVE HOURS per day (Beginners and CÆsar) or ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HOURS in six weeks—quite as much time as the average school gives in one year. It is thought that teachers of Latin and Greek will find not only the method of value, but also the inspiration which indubitably does arise when teachers gather. Your ob’t servant, Edgar S. Shumway, Principal. Rutgers College, February 23, 1885. The C. L. S. C. Correspondence Department, though not often heard from publicly, is doing an important work. Several hundred students are enrolled upon its books, and the work is being prosecuted this year with renewed vigor. An Illinois lady writes: “Having enjoyed and been benefited by the letters of my C. L. S. C. correspondent, I very much wish to continue that branch of the work this year. We followed no special plan, but the letters I received encouraged and strengthened me, and kept me from falling by the wayside. I love the C. L. S. C. and am proud to say I have gained for it some members. In my judgment the Correspondence Circle is grand, good and beneficial.” From New Hampshire comes the following: “I tender hearty thanks to the originator of the Correspondence Circle. The frequent letters of my two correspondents are a continual stimulus. The sympathetic words, the exchange of essays, the comparing of work done, I find very helpful, while the questions of my bright girl correspondent have led me to search for and find many items of information I should have otherwise neglected.” These and many similar letters received from members of the Correspondence Department show how helpful this work is proving to many isolated members of the Circle, shut out from all other means of communication with their fellow students. From a circle in Connecticut numbering five members comes the suggestion that Local Circles be put in communication with each other, the correspondence to be carried on, of course, through the respective secretaries. There is no reason why a correspondence of this sort should not prove both interesting and valuable, as it will serve to increase the feeling of fraternity among local circles, give opportunities for the exchange of programs, the discussion of difficulties, and in other ways make the circles of practical benefit to each other. Members of the C. L. S. C. or local circles wishing to join the Correspondence Department should report to the office of the C. L. S. C. at Plainfield, N. J. The list of C. L. S. C. graduates in the Class of ’84 has been lengthened by the following names:
Communications intended for the “Local Circles” of The Chautauquan should be sent directly to our office. Any circle which has not reported this year we should be glad to have do so at once. Transcriber’s Notes: Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Page 388, “II” changed to “IV” (Class IV.) Page 389, “carniverous” changed to “carnivorous” (they have all the five senses, and are carnivorous) Page 398, “Fate” changed to “Gate” (Traitor’s Gate) Page 398, “Tewksbury” changed to “Tewkesbury” (in the field at Tewkesbury) Page 403, “ahd” changed to “and” (and have bought bonds) Page 405, “extirminated” changed to “exterminated” in two places (and their kind exterminated / the native fish are actually exterminated) Page 406, “extirmination” changed to “extermination” (extermination so recklessly begun) Page 406, “their” changed to “the” (the narrow, tortuous defiles) Page 407, “neans” changed to “means” (by artificial means) Page 408, “Mariner” changed to “Marner” (Silas Marner) Page 413, “Easer” changed to “Easter” (1. Essay—Easter.) Page 424, “make” changed to “made” (which has made Shaksperean skepticism almost respectable) Page 429, “with” added (two atoms of nitrogen have united with two atoms of oxygen) Page 429, “hydrogen” changed to “oxygen” (The formula Cu(NO3)2 … three atoms of oxygen) |
|
