Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1883 — Greek and Latin. [ARTICLE]

Greek and Latin.

President Robinson, of Brown University, writes in his report to the corporation : “Years and years of closest study are given to other tongues, both ancient and modern, tongues which only a fraction of educated men are expected to use «in after life, while only incidental and comparatively superficial attention is given to that mother tongue which all are compelled to use in speech or in writing every day of their lives, and on a skillful use of which with many depend to no small degree their success or failure in life. The fact cannot be disguished that many an excellent Latin and Greek scholar writes wretched English, while admirable English is written by inany who know neither Latin nor Greek.