Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — Why Not English? [ARTICLE]

Why Not English?

Certain of our colleges make a parade of their learning by publishing their catalogues and official circulars in Latin. The graduates of Harvard in New York City have petitioned the college authorities to use English hereafter. In the commencement programme and quinquennial catalogue the names of the graduates now appear, as it were, in disguise, and are often unintelligible exoept to good Latin scholars. There was a time when Latin was the language of the learned world, ahd that was not many years ago. But we had no modem literature until Latin was discarded, and our best writers and thinkers make use of the language of every-day life. —Bemorest’s Monthly.