Central High School - Central Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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WHY STUDY GREEK? - - - Mary Bolles, ’08 A MOTOR-BOAT RACE - - Van Schcrmerhorn, ’08 CLASS POEM....................... Harriet Ives,’08 CLASS HISTORY - Joseph Connolly, ’08 THE SENIOR CLASS CALENDAR V Bepartments EDITORIALS BELFRY OWL GAVEL CLUBS ATHLETICS GRINDS ANNOUNCEMENTS

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The Central Hi on SonooL Monthly Volume flint June, Nineteen $unbreb anb €igfjt dumber iiint Pape Three Wf)p Urtubp £reefe ? Why study Greek? What good will it do you? Why not study a modern language or science? You will forget your Greek in a few years. These questions are frequently put to a student of Greek. We admit that very few ‘students study Greek, that the modern languages and sciences are studied with great enthusiasm; but why not study Greek? The pupil who chooses a science or modern language chooses that which will give immediate results, money or ornament. Is money to be the aim of the twentieth century civilization? Will a man’s dollars benefit the world? But the pupil who wishes to raise the standard of living, to uplift his fellowmen, looks to a more permanent and more valuable result to life. This pupil chooses Greek as a foundation for further education. He realizes the good obtained by studying the language of the most gifted race the world has ever cherished,—for what other race can boast of a literature created quite without models, complete in all its forms, in many unsurpassed, in some still unequaled? He chooses Greek for the mental training it affords. He knows that no other language has the virtues and all the virtues that Greek has; he knows that no other study will produce the results desired and obtained through the study of Greek. He knows that, “Greek is Greek, there is no Greek but Greek, and Greek is its prophet.” The student who has really studied Greek cannot and will never forget it. The study of Greek is a great educational instrument. It develops the intelligence. It is a key to history; it is necessary for a study of the New Testament; it promotes exact thought and a philosophic mind; it gives an understanding for scientific terminology. Do we not owe our science, our mathematics, geometry, astronomy, geography, anatomy, and medicine to the ancient Greeks ? What learned profession has not a vocabulary derived from Greek stems? How many times is a member of the English class forced to turn to a Greek mythology for a better understanding of his text? How many times is he compelled to say, “That comes from a Greek word...........” but what is that Greek word and what connection has it with the English? Is not tlie •study of Greek then the “royal road” to the study of English? The student who elects Greek studies the ancient religion of a race whose method was inquiry, whose aim was to understand and express; he studies their art, history, civil and domestic life, their science of warfare. The architecture and sculpture of Greece together with the Homeric verse still remain unsurpassed. Has any artist since the time of Zeuxis been able to deceive his rival by the