Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — The Dead Languages. [ARTICLE]

The Dead Languages.

Greek and Latin are all right in their way, but they don’t weigh much in the way Of gaining for us the common necessities of life, such as meat and mtlk—or nuts and noodles —according tn wiffli proclivities. Modern English is what we really need and we waste our time in trying to acquire it through the Greek and Latin route. About the only thing a knowledge of Latin can do for us is to enable us to read the doctor’s prescription —and perhaps the less we know about that, the better off we’ll be. Then if we know Greek we can tell our children what kind of a cork screw the word “knock” resembles In the original—and of what value is that?—Exchange. , .■ ,