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...corresponding accuracy on the part of the student. Writing Latin is not a mystery that can be communicated. It is to be acquired only by practice, and constant reading of good models. This course, therefore, should only be taken in connection with another elective or extra in Latin, except in those cases - unfortunately too rare - where a student is willing to undertake the reading of considerable Latin by himself. It is hardly a course for those who wish to "keep up their Latin a little," or "who never could do anything with Latin prose, and want to learn...
...have already elected some Latin and find themselves unable to take a three-hour elective. It is of a literary and philosophical character. Cicero de Finibus is generally allowed to be the finest specimen of philosophical Latin prose; it is as hard as any of Cicero's works except the strictly legal orations. It is proposed to read the first two books of this treatise; the first an exposition of Epicurus's ethics, the second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius - universally regarded as one of the hardest...
These remarks of course, though pains have been taken to make them accurate, are without authority, except what applies to 3, 4, 6, 7. With reference to those courses it should be said emphatically that regularity and attention at every exercise is essential to any real success. The courses are integral wholes, and no partial or spasmodic application is regarded as valuable...
...rooms all day began to show themselves on deck. A trip on an Indian steamer is almost an education in itself; one sees on board representatives of every race and almost of every country. The crew were Indians shipped at Bombay; they did not understand a word of English, except the commands on board ship. Their turbans were bound to their heads with red sashes, and they presented a very picturesque appearance as they hauled in on the ropes, keeping time with a peculiar melody of their own. Their helmsmen were Manilla men, and the ship's carpenters, etc., Chinamen...
...division of 1, is the cause of 2?" * Cebes, after mature deliberation, gave it up, whereupon the Clown convulsed the audience by the following witty reply: "Then you would loudly asseverate that you know of no way in which anything comes into existence except by participation in its own proper essence, and consequently as far as you know, the only cause of 2 is the participation of duality; that is the way to make two, and the participation in one is the way to make...