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sSfflf ' r LANGUAGES H. McMillan. Department of I atin. J. L. VAN GUNDY, Department of Greek. Latin Latin is not a dead language. It is no m ore dead than is the English of King Alfred. Latin is living today in our English. Over half our words have a direct Latin origin. Many English words have been taken from the Latin without any change of form whatever. Words often are mere pictures of ideas. The original meaning of the word explains the picture. Latin is living today in the Romance Languages. The peoples of France. Portugal, Spain, Italy are speaking modern Latin, just as we are using modern English. Latin is just as much our mother tongue as is . ' nglo Saxon. English descends from both of these. The vigor and strength comes partly, but not entirely, from the Anglo Sa.xon ; the refinement and culture is found in the words of Latin origin. The vehicle by which our finer distinctions in thought are conveyed is the Latin vocabulary. To the student of English Latin is invaluable. To the student of History Latin opens the field of ancient deeds with a vividness not brought out in translations. To him who has the Legal Profession in view no better subject can be offered than a course in College Latin. Aside from the fact that modern Law rests on Roman Laws and many legal terms are in Latin, the habits of thought found in the Latin sentence is a useful training for a legal mind. The Pharmacist needs Latin that he may interpret Pre- scriptions to the safety of his patron. The student of Medicine needs Latin that he may understand the Physiological and Medical terms encountered. Besides the structure of the Latin sentence devlopes the habit of noting Symtoms . This the Physician nmst do constantly in the sick room. Latin then is an open door to nearly every field of modern service, whether it k Lit- erary, Professional, or Commercial. He to whom most doors are open is on the surest road to efficiency. Latin developes our powers of observation, memory, judgment. It leads to accuracy, trains us to reason and reach right conclusions. It increases our vocabulary and gives fluency in expressing our ideas. It opens Literature and makes plain many allusions. It trains us to hold in reserve our conclusions until all the facts are before us. These are some of the benefits to be derived from college courses in Latin. John H. McMillan.
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Page Twenty- Greek It is the aim of the Greek Department to introduce the student to the study of the most wonderful and most expressive language ever spoken by any people. It is our aim to enable him to read with appreciation and pleasure Homer and the New Testament, the greatest treasures of all literature. One year ' s work should enable the student to understand the significance of scientific nomenclature and use intelligently the English dictionary. It is our aim to show, incidentally, the intimate relationship existing between Greek words and many words in the Latin and Teutonic languages, especially the English. — to see, indeed, that English is Greek and that English words cannot be fully comprehended without some knowledge of the Greek language. As to the importance and lasting value of Greek literature, I shall not here make a plea, but content myself with quoting the words of Ma. Eastman, author of The Masses , — testimony coming not from antiquity, nor from the middle ages, but written as late as March twelfth of this present year. He says. If I could add one thing to my education and one only, it would be the ability to read ancient Greek fluently and with intimate under- standing — to feel the words as I feel English words in poetry. The beauty and wisdom of life both reached their height in Athens. They may reach it again sometime, and they may go higher. But in the meantime to be excluded by the barrier of a little language from entering subtly into the passions and thoughts of that great time, is tragic indeed to one who wishes to taste of life to the full. Greek literature ought to be — if it is anything — one of the major experiences of a man, for it contains more clear thinking com- bined with high feeling than any other literature of the world. And it ' s all very easy — it takes only purpose and pep . J. L. V. x Gundy. MATriEMATICS f ALICE WINBIGLER. Department of Mathematics. The purpose of all education is not simply to store the mind with knowledge but to develop power to make that knowledge useful. The Mathematics Department of Mon- mouth College is not at variance from other departments in its beliefs as to the essential elements of education or in its aims as to the development of scholarship, but in common with other departments is seeking to train the student to think and to think to the point ; to think for himself in an independent manner: to stand upon his own feet without using
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