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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION. 177 to offer peculiar advantages in this direction. Further, the fact that the English draws a very large proportion of its words from the Latin, and that the study of Latin words throws much light upon the formation and meaning of English words, gives the study additional value as bearing upon the student's knowledge and use of English. The attempt is made to render this study valuable also as a branch of knowledge. By reading the great Eoman authors the student is brought into intimate acquaintance with the thought and life of an age that has had a profound influence upon the life and thought of our own times. The collateral reading and discussion to which this leads is believed to be of service in enlarging the student's horizon and raising t i e tone of his thought. I n short, the attempt is made in this department to study Latin, not that the student may read the literatAe and learn to speak the Latin language—ends which, in themselves would not to-day justify the necessary means,—but that the study may assist in rendering his mind quick, sure, accurate in all its work; that it may increase his knowledge of English and his skill in its use; and that it may give him a high standard of taste in thought and expression, and a broader horizon of thought. The attention of teachers is earnestly called to the need in this, as in every branch of study, that the work preparatory for college may be most carefully done. The extent to which the study of Latin in college can be made of real value to the student, depends greatly upon the thoroughness of his first year's work. I am glad to report a very satisfactory degree of interest and diligence on the part of students in my classes in doing the work required of them. I am encouraged to believe that the ends explained above have, in some degree, been accomplished, and the study of Latin made to contribute to good work in other departments.
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