Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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THE TATTLER Chaucer and Shakespeare’s time. It only lives in another form. In its modern form (now called Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Roumanian) it is 90 per-cent Latin. Moreover, a very large proportion of the words of the English language is derived from tne Latin. As an illustration of this, nearly three-fourths of the words in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States (with the exception of prepositions and articles) are of Latin origin. As a result of actual experiment, it has been found that Latin students are superior in their work in English to those who have no knowledge of Latin. Many pupils know practically no technical English grammar until they have studied Latin. Lyman Abbott, Editor of ‘The Outlook’ says, “My first remembrance of grammar is my study of the Latin grammar which gave me, so far as I now can see, whatever knowledge I possess of the structure of language. Through Latin, the pupil gets a mastery of grammar, sentence structure, and analysis, and a feeling for shades of word meaning impossible to acquire merely through the vernacular. Latin develops the memory, the reason, the judgment, the imagination, observation, accuracy and concentration of mind. It familiarizes one with the history and thought of the greatest nation of antiquity, the nation that furnished us with the basis of our laws and government, language and literature. The greatest works of English literature have been written by men who knew Latin and they contain innumerable passages which cannot be understood without a knowledge of Latin. Mythological stories become more vivid and real as they are read in the language in which they were originally written. Latin is the foundation of the Romance language and is a good basis for the study of language in general. Latin furnishes the key to the terminology of science and philosophy, Latin Maxims, to the meaning of familiar quotations, proverbs and formulae. Latin contributes more or less directly to success in the professions. Lawyers, clergymen, journalists, statesmen, scientists and business men testify heartily in favor of Latin. In these ways and in others, the study of Latin is closely con nected with the life of the modern world, and it cannot well be disregarded by any one who wishes to become in the best sense efficient and intelligent. M. A. S. COUGH-FEE. Customer: “Waiter, a little bird told me this coffee was not strained.” Waiter: “A little bird, sir?” Customer: “Yes, a swallow.” Page Seven

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SOCIETY CATHERINE M. BLICKENSDERFER, Editor. FOOTBALL BANQUET. At eight o’clock Friday evening the annual C. H. S. football banquet was held in the dining room of the Hotel Cleveland. About forty members of C. H. S. were present, also their guests, Prof, and Mrs. C. M. Dickey, Miss Louise Kahler and Mrs. J. R. Freeman. After the five-course banquet was served, Captain Edmund Leahy, who acted as toastmaster, introduced Harold Ladner, Carroll Cowden, Carlton Hicks, Charlotte Andrews, Douglas Reid, Raymond Connor, Catherine Blickensderfer, Lawrence Clark, Gladys Jones, Miss Kahler and Prof. C. M. Dickey as speakers of the evening. Later a business session was held and Captain Leahy was reelected captain of the football team. This will give the captain a chance to pilot a team through an entire season, unless there is another “Flu” epidemic next year, as there were only three games played this season. This is the first time in the football history of C. H. S. that a captain has been re-elected to run the team for the following year. Toward the close of the business session Captain Leahy announced that Hall Kurtz, Douglas Reid, Granville Dickey, Arthur Benson, Harold Ladner, Raymond Connor, Carroll Cowden, Howard Splan, Edmund Leahy, Lawrence Clark, Claude Beasley, Wallace Weaver, Albert Masters, Hugh Coughlan, manager, and J. R. Free- Page Nine