150 STERLING DOW way toward covering the profoonion. Beyond 00, it will bo a gain to have discovered this we have to grope our way, and it is here them and to have proved their worth. All con­ that teachers of Latin everywhere can help. cerned in the present effort are eager to learn. The help can come from allowing the pam­ At the very least there has been some gain. phlet to superintendents, principals, council* The heads of a massive majority of Ameri­ tors, trustees, and parents. can colleges are on record o» personally Many of as have felt that the teachers of favoring Latin. Wo do not intend to ktxsp ibis Latin, whose lives are dedicated to the sub­ fact hidden. Prof. Marnell, na bean of a Com­ ject, hardly need to be told that it is a good mittee on Publicity, is a former cerropoUtsn subject. The pamphlet ia therefore directed, newspaper editor, and whatever can be triad with its intrinsic emphasis on numbers and ia this field will be vied. on authority, to persons outside the profes­ sion. The first problem ia to find out which 1. Why Study Latin in School? Tbr Answer of aach persons are likely to be affected; then, College Teachers. how to place it in their hands; and finally 8 pages. Price ten cents (10^ a copy.) Ob­ to learn whether it ia sufficiently effective tainable from to warrant large efforts in this direction. We The Service Bureau need help. We need the opinions of teachers American Classical League themselves as to the value of the two pamph­ Miami University lets. Any teacher who will show them, or one Oxford, Ohio of them, to on educational administrator, and or from report the result to Prof. Marnell (address in Prof. Wm. H. Marnell Note 1), will contribute to guiding policy. State Teachers College No one, 1 think is so deluded aa to imag­ 625 Huntington Ave. ine that one pamphlet, or two, or any number, Boston, 15, Mass. will by itself restore Latin. Latin will only be restored when it ia restored in the class­ ii Why Study Latin in School? Answers from room, by fine teaching from fine books. But Eighty-jour College Presidents, Deans, Exec, even then opinion about its value will still utivts. Pages viii32 . Price twenty-five cents count; until then, opinion is even more im­ (25*) a copy; for orders of five or more cop­ portant. Possibly much more effective weap­ ies, twenty cents (204) encb. Obtainable from ons axe available than the present ones. If the addresses above.

Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDDLE

WEST AND SOUTH, INC. Cincinnati, Ohio April 2. 3. L 1955

HEADQUARTERS NETHER LAND PLAZA HOTEL THURSDAY. APRIL 2 MORNING SESSION 8:30 A.M. Registration: Lobby, Fourth lloor. Netherland Plaza Hotel. Regis­ 10:00 A.M. Pavillion Capita-. Russel M. tration will continue on Friday and Geer, Tulane University, presiding. Saturday. To help defray expenses a Chauncey F.. Finch, Saint Louis Univer­ registration fee of one dollar will be sity: "Classital influence in the Works asked of all attending the meeting in of N. V. Gogol." whole or in part. Sibyl Stoncciphcr, Western Kentucky 9:00 A.M. Meeting of Executive Commit­ State Collegt:: "Ancient Rome in tee: Presidential suite. Modern Storv." Lorctta A. Grothaus. Richmond (In­ Gerald F. Else, Staf" University of Iowa: diana) High School: "Homeric Simi- "Some Implications of Pericles' Fun­ lies in the Aercid.-' eral Speech." M. Joseph Costclloe, S. J., Saint Louis Harry |. Leon, The University of Texas: University: "Roman Ruins in Spain." "The Jewish Catacombs of Rome." (Illustrated.) (Illustrated.) Alfred P. Dorjahn, Northwestern Uni­ Mary V. Hraginton, Rockford College: versity: "Housman's Translation ol "Roman Women Abroad." Horace. Odes, IV. 7." Albeit Rapp, The University of Tennes­ Walter Allen, Jr., The University of see: "Creek Jests and Jesters," North Carolina: "Political Name-Call­ ing in Cicero's Time." A I" I"I. RNOON SKSSION Meeting of the members of the .Southern 'J.iO P.M. Pavillion Caprice. Nether­ Section of the Association. (Members land Pla/a. will please remain in Pavillion Caprice Welcomes: Reverend |ames Maguire. after morning session.) S. J., President, Xavier University. Raymond Walters. President Uni­ AFTERNOON SESSION versity of Cincinnati. l':00 P.M. Second session: 127. McMic- Greetings from New England: Thomas ken Hall. University of Cincinnati. Means, Bowdoin College, Past Presi­ Arthur II. Moscr. the University ol dent of the Classical Association of Tennessee, presiding. New England. Francis R. Walton. The- Florida Mate Response lot the Association: Russel M. University: "Atargatis and the Geer. President. Classical Association Greeks." of the Middle West and South. Mary C. Fit/paiiick. Barat College- ol the A Report Iron) Australia, [ohn X. Sacred Heart: "Rambles in Cam Hough, University of Colorado, Sec­ pania." (Illusiraied.) retary-Treasurer of the Classical As. Norman T. Pratt, Jr.. Indiana Univei­ soiiiition of the Middle West and siiy: "The Theme of Law in the \n- South. tigonc." EVENING Thomas Means. Bowdoin College: "Oedipus. Boeotia, and Pausanias." 7:.HO P.M. Subscription Banquet. $3.50 )x:r plate. Pavillion Caprice, Nether- Walter R. Agaicl. The University ol Wis­ land Pla/a. consin: "Beyond Greek Tragcclv." (Informal Dress Requested) I). Hcrhcri Mile. Loyola University of Toastmastcr: H. Lloyd Siow, Vander­ Chicago: "Sophocles Poliiicus." bilt University •1:00 P.M. Tea. by invitation of the Uni­ FRIDAY, APRIL 3 versity ol Cincinnati: Laws Drawing Room. Univcrsitv ol Cine inn,m. 7:30 A.M. Annual Breakfast Meeting ol State Vice-Presidents. Parlour H, 1th 1:30 P.M. Visits to museums are sug­ floor, Netherland Pla/a. gested. See General Information. MORNING SESSION

9:30 A.M. Pavillion Caprice. Charles R. EVENING SESSION Hart, Emory University, Presiding. Arthur Kaplan, The University ol 7:30 P.M. Pavillion Caprice. John N. Georgia: "The Birthday ol Augustus." Hough, Uni\cisiiy of Colorado, pre- ,, . siding. Phillip De Lacy. Washington Univer­ sity: "Plutarch and the New Aca- Wilber I... Carr, Univeisiiy of ken- demy." tucks: "The Linguists' Contribution co Teaching Techniques." and College 'Teachers Malcolm F. McGregor, University of Cincin­ Raymond V. Schoder, S. (., West Baden College: "Masterpieces of Greek An." nati (Illustrated in Color, 50 minutes.) Junior Classical League, Lois Bit- kclhaupt, Clay High School. To­ PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ledo. Ohio. Russel M. Geer, Tulane University: Graves H. 'Thompson, Hampden-.Sydney "The Classics at the Constitutional College: "High School Latin as View­ Convention." ed by College Students." H. G. Robertson, University ol Toronto, First Vice-President of the Associa­ SATURDAY.-APRIL 3 tion, presiding. MORNING SESSION Paul L. MacKendrick. the University ol !):00 A.M. Business Meeting. Pavillion Wisconsin: "E\|>cricnces with a Latin Workshop." Caprice. Russel M. Geer, presiding. 10:00 A.M. Jonah W. I). Skiles. Univer­ Carolyn Bock, University of Minnesota. sity ol Kentucky: "How to Teach Diiluth Branch. "The New Foe: Lan­ L.atin and Greek Functionally." guage Aits." Paul Pascal. The University ol North Round Table, William E. Gwatkin. |r.. Carolina: " Travels in Italy." (Illus­ University of Missouri, chairman: Re­ trated.) vitalizing the Classics by Greater Em­ phasis on: |;unc\s W. Alexander, The University of Georgia: "Biological Warfare in An­ l.atin Week, Lucy A. Whitsel. Mar­ cient Greece." shall College Eta Sigma Phi, Graydon W. Re­ Mars M. Westington, Hanover College: genos, 'Tulane University "The Teaching of College Courses in Co-o|>eraiion between High School Latin and Greek Derivatives."