Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Xatin HERE was a time in the history of the University when the Latin department was little more than a name. Now, however, it compares favorably with the best. It is making itself felt, not only as an important part of Indiana University, but as a factor in the national educational system. As the department library is amply supplied with lexicons, reference works, commentaries and critical editions, thorough work is possible and required. There is a popular idea that we study dead languages that we may be able to interpret derived English words. Those who have this impres- sion are unaware of the true purposes of classical study. The idea that years should be spent in acquiring knowledge through which we might recognize words which could be learned direct in months, is nothing if not absurd. We do not study the works of old Roman authors with a view of learning Latin vocabularies ; we study them as literature. Latin as it was spoken and read, as near as it is possible to determine it, is the Latin taught at Indiana University.

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Horace Addison Hoffman, Professor of Greek and Dean of the Departments of Lib- eral Arts. A. B., Indiana University, 1881; A. M., Har- vard University, 1884; Instruc- tor in Latin and Greek, Indiana University, 1881-83; graduate stu dent in Classical Philology, Harvard University, 1883-85; traveled and studied in Greece, Sicily and Italy, 1890; Professor of Greek, Indiana University, from 1885 Mabel Banta, Instructor in Greek. A. B., Indiana University, 1SS5; A. M., 1891; teacher of Latin, High School, Frank- in, Ind., 1887-91; graduate stu- dent, Cornell University, 1891-92; Senior Fellow in Latin, Chi- cago University, 1892-93: In- structor in Greek, from 1894. William Dennis Bar- tle, Bartle, Ind.

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Hariiui Whetstone John- ston, Professor of Latin. A. B. Illinois College, 1870; A. M., 1882; Ph. D., 1891 ; Principal of Whipple Academy, 1880-84; Instructor in Latin (in charge of department), Illinois Col lege, 1882-86, and Professor of Lat 1886-95; Professor of Latin, Indiana versity, from 1895. Joseph Henry Howard, Assistant Professor of Latin. A. B., Indiana University, 1888; A.M., 1890; graduate student, Lcland Stanford, Jr., Univer- sity, 1891-92; graduate student, University of Chicago, 1S92-93; Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, 1895-96; Instructor in Latin, Indiana University, 1893-94; Assistant Professor of Latin, from 1894. Edgar Howard Sturtevant, Tu- tor in Latin. A. B., Indiana Uni- versity, 1S97. Charles Stevens Maltby, Aurora, Ind. - X. Francesca Louisa OTTO, Auburn, Ind. k a e. Ella Marthens, Indianapolis, K A e.