Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1917 — Use of Classics Declining. [ARTICLE]

Use of Classics Declining.

The use of Greek. Latin and mat hematics in the higher education of America is declining. In a few years it will Im as rare fofa student to know Greek as today it is for hUn to know Hebrew; aqd it will not take more titan a generation or two for Latin to follow the same course. How long the higher reaches of mathematics—those noble and inviting reaches in which philosophy, poetry and imagination combine to play with the intrierftes of space and the notations of time —will continue to find extensive educational use is also a question—The Youth’s Companion.