By: Becky,
on 12/3/2007
Harry Mount and his new book, Carpe Diem: Put a Little Latin in Your Life, have made a big splash on this side of the pond, and just in time for Christmas. From the December 10 issue of The New Yorker: Last Christmas, the British publisher Short Books issued — along with “Doctor, Have You Got a Minute?” and “Ever Dated a Psycho?” — a two-hundred-and-seventy-two-page half memoir, half manual
By: Becky,
on 9/28/2007
A Plea for the Classics by Eugene Field (1850-1895) A Boston gentleman declares, By all the gods above, below, That our degenerate sons and heirs Must let their Greek and Latin go! Forbid, O Fate, we loud implore, A dispensation harsh as that; What! wipe away the sweets of yore; The dear "Amo, amas, amat"? The sweetest hour the student knows Is not when poring over French, Or twisted in
By: Becky,
on 4/1/2007
Just in time for April Fool's Day, one hopes, The Telegraph's education correspondent reported yesterday, Lessons in Latin and Ancient Greek have been deemed detrimental to the learning of foreign languages in schools. A secret document sent to Government officials by the Dearing Languages Review, an influential inquiry into language teaching, reveals that Latin and Greek were excluded from the
