Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1918 — Poetry by the Foot. [ARTICLE]

Poetry by the Foot.

Thefdllowing letter was received by the principal of a continuation school "somewhere in Canada” from an indignant mother who felt that her boy had been overworked: “My son writes me that he has to study too hard. He says that you give him 50 hexameters of Latin a day. „ I looked up hexameters and found that it is a poetic verse of six feet. Now tKht means 300 feet or 100 yards of poetry that my son has to translate each day. I think about half a hexameter, that is, 86 inches, is enough for a boy of his age to translate.