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Title: A Handbook for Latin Clubs
Author: Various
Release Date: October 23, 2005 [EBook #16923]
Language: English
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A HANDBOOK FOR
LATIN CLUBS
BY
SUSAN PAXSON
TEACHER OF LATIN IN THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
OMAHA, NEB.
D. C. HEATH & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
Copyright, 1916,
By D. C. Heath & Co.
PREFACE
The Latin Club in secondary schools is the result of the incessant demand that our Latin instruction must be vivified. Many teachers feel the need of supplementary work in their Latin teaching, but they have been handicapped because of a lack of material as well as a lack of time. This is especially true of the teacher in the small town. To help meet this demand is the purpose of this book.
The programs have purposely been made too long for one session in order that the teacher may have some choice in selection, and that, in case all references are not accessible, enough may be secured to insure a reasonably varied program.
I would suggest that the Club purchase as many Perry pictures and Berlin photographs of classical subjects as possible and that its members coöperate with the city library board for the purchase of such books as are essential, in case there is no school fund available for this purpose. Some high school alumnus in whose heart there is appreciation of Rome's gift to us might present a book to his Alma Mater. Another might offer some suitable magazines, properly bound.
Of a Latin Club, as of most school work, it may be said that usus est optimus magister, and especially applicable in this connection are the words of Horace: Dimidium facti, qui coepit.
Omaha, Nebraska,
June, 1916
CONTENTS
Programs
The Value of Latin
3
Pompeii
5
Ancient Rome
7
The Roman Forum
10
The Roman House
12
Roman Slaves
13
Roman Children
15
Education among the Romans
16
Some Common Professions and Trades among the Romans
17
Roman Doctors
19
The Roman Soldier
20
Caesar
21
Cicero
23
Vergil
25
Horace
27
Roman Literature
28
Some Famous Women of Ancient Rome
29
Roman Holidays
31
Funeral Customs and Burial Places
33
Roman Games
35
Some Famous Buildings of Ancient Rome
37
Some Famous Roman Letters
38
Some Ancient Romans of Fame
40
A Roman Banquet
42
Roman Roads
44
Some Roman Gods
46
Some Famous Temples of Ancient and Modern Rome
47
Some Religious Customs
49
Some Famous Pictures and Sculpture
51
Roman Book and Libraries
52
Ancient Myths and Legends
53
The Ancient Myth in Modern Literature
54
What English Owes to Greek
55
Modern Rome
56
Italy of To-day
58
O Tempora! O Mores!
60
Selections that may be used for the Programs
A Plea for the Classics
Eugene Field
65
On an Old Latin Text Book
T. W. Higginson
66
St. Augustine's Love of Latin
Andrew Lang
68
The Watch of the Old Gods
69
Old and New Rome
Herman Merivale
70
The Fall of Rome
Arthur Chamberlain
70
A Christmas Hymn
Alfred Dommett
71
Roman Girl's Song
Mrs. Hemans
73
Capri
Walter Taylor Field
74
Palladium
Matthew Arnold
76
After Construing
A. C. Benson
77
A Roman Mirror
Rennell Rodd
78
The Doom of the Slothful
John Addington Symonds
79
Hector and Andromache. Schiller
Tr. Sir E. B. Lytton
80
Enceladus
Henry W. Longfellow
81
Nil Admirari
John G. Saxe
83
Perdidi Diem
Mrs. Sigourney
84
Jupiter and His Children
John G. Saxe
85
The Prayer of Socrates
John H. Finley
87
By the Roman Road
Anonymous
88
A Nymph's Lament
Nora Hopper
89
Helen of Troy
Nora Hopper
92
An Etruscan Ring
J. W. Mackail
93
Orpheus With His Lute
William Shakespeare
94
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
Thomas Campion
94
Horace's Philosophy of Life
Tr. Sir Theodore Martin
95
An Invitation to Dine Written by Horace to Vergil
Tr. Sir Theodore Martin
96
The Golden Mean. Horace
Tr. Wm. Cowper
97
To the Reader. Martial
Tr. Lord Byron
98
On Portia. Martial
Tr. Lamb
98
To Potitus. Martial
Tr. John Hay
99
What Is Given To Friends Is Not Lost. Martial
99
To Cotilus. Martial
Tr. Elton
100
The Happy Life. Martial
Tr. Sir Richard Fanshawe
100
To a Schoolmaster. Martial
Tr. John Hay
101
Epitaph on Erotion. Martial
Tr. Leigh Hunt
102
Non Amo Te
102
Gratitude
Robert Burns
103
A Hymn to the Lares
Robert Herrick
103
Elysium. Schiller
Tr. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
104
Orpheus
Robert Herrick
105
Cerberus
Oliver Herford
105
The Harpy
Oliver Herford
106
Cupid and the Bee
Anacreon
106
The Assembly of the Gods A. Tassoni
Tr. A. Werner
107
A Model Young Lady of Antiquity
Pliny the Younger
109
Translation
Alfred J. Church
110
To Lesbia's Sparrow
Catullus
111
Translation
Elton
112
Cicero
Catullus
112
Translation
Charles Lamb
113
De Patientia
Thomas à Kempis
113
The Favorite Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots
114
Ultima Thule
Seneca
114
Translation
115
The Roman of Old
Anonymous
115
Ich bin Dein
116
Malum Opus
James A. Morgan
117
Felis
118
Amantis Res Adversae
119
Puer ex Jersey
121
Songs that may be used for the Programs
Items in
italics—except translators' names—have been added by the transcriber.
Flevit Lepus Parvulus
125
Carmen Vitae. Longfellow
Tr. Benjamin L. D'Ooge
126
Text
127
Gaudeamus Igitur
128
Text
129
Lauriger Horatius
132
Text
133
America
Tr. George D. Kellogg
134
Integer Vitae
Horace
136
Text
137
Rock of Ages. Toplady
Tr. William Gladstone
138
Dies Irae
Thomas of Celano
139
Ad Sanctum Spiritus
Robert II, King of France
142
Adeste Fideles
143
De Nativitate Domini
145
Bibliography
147
Acknowledgment
149
Footnotes
end of main text
Publisher's Price List
end of volume
PROGRAMS
THE VALUE OF LATIN
"Latin is the most logically constructed of all the languages, and will help more effectually than any other study to strengthen the brain centres that must be used when any reasoning is required."
—Dr.
Frank Sargent Hoffman
The Latin Language.
Mosaics in History. Arthur Gilman.
Chautauqua. Vol. ii, p. 317.
Illustrated History of Ancient Literature. John D. Quackenbos. P. 305.
A Short Story of the English Language.
Jessie A. Chase.
Saint Nicholas. Vol. xxvi, p. 593.
The Value of Latin.
The Advantages which accrue from a Classical Education. Caroline R. Gaston.
Education. Vol. xxiii, p. 257.
The Study of Cæsar. Adeline A. Knight.
Education. Vol. viii, p. 188.
A Plea for Culture. T. W. Higginson.
Atlantic Monthly. Vol. xix, p. 29.
The Nature of Culture Studies. R. M. Wenley.
School Review. Vol. xiii, p. 441.
The Teaching of Second Year Latin. H. W. Johnston.
School Review. Vol. x, p. 72.
Essay.
What I have gained from the Study of Latin.
The Value of Latin as a Preparation for the Study of Medicine.
The Advantages that accrue from a Classical Education. Caroline R. Gaston.
Education. Vol. xxiii, p. 351.
The Value of Greek and Latin to the Medical Student. Victor C. Vaughan.
School Review. Vol. xiv, p. 389.
Latin and Greek in American Education. Francis W. Kelsey. Chap. iv.
The Place of the Humanities in the Training Of Engineers.
Latin and Greek in American Education. Francis W. Kelsey. Chap. iv.
The Value of the Humanistic Studies as a Preparation for the Study of Engineering. Herbert C. Sadler.
School Review. Vol. xiv, p. 400.
The Value of Latin as a Training for Practical Life.
Latin and Greek in American Education. Francis W. Kelsey. Chap. iv.
Bulletin of the Missouri State Normal School (1909). P. 19.
The Practical Value of Humanistic Studies. Wm. Gardner Hale.
School Review. Vol. xix, p. 657.
The Value of Latin to the Business Girl.
Latin as a Vocational Study in the Commercial Course. Albert S. Perkins.
The Classical Journal. Vol. x, p.7.
Rome's Gift to Us.
The Indebtedness of the English Language to the Latin. Federico Garlanda.
Chautauqua. Vol. xi, p. 10.
A First Year Latin Book. (Introduction.) Wm. Gardner Hale.
The Value of Latin as a Training for the Lawyer.
Bulletin of the Missouri State Normal School (1909). P. 17.
Will Latin follow Greek out of the High School. Joseph P. Behm.
Classical Weekly. Vol. vii, p. 25.
Poem.
—A Plea for the Classics. Eugene Field.
POMPEII
"There is nothing on the earth, or under it, like Pompeii."
—
W. D. Howells
Poem.
—Pompeii.
Poetical Works. Mrs. Sigourney. P. 270.
The City of Pompeii before the Destruction.
The Last Days of Pompeii. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P. 89.
The Destruction of Pompeii.
The Last Days of Pompeii. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P. 366.
Poem.
—The Earthquake.
Whittier's
Complete Poems. P. 487.
A Letter from Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
The Eruption of Vesuvius. Pliny the Younger.
Century. Vol. lxiv, p. 642.
The Eruption of Vesuvius. Translation of Pliny's letter.
Readings in Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 248.
A Doomed City. Arranged from Pliny's Letters.
Chautauqua. Vol. xviii, p. 506.
Vesuvius, Destroyer of Cities.
B. F. Fisher.
Cosmopolitan. Vol. xxxii, p. 573.
Peeps at Many Lands. Italy. John Finnemore. Chap. xiv, p.
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