The Academy of Latin and Greek,
Summer Term of Six Weeks.
To The Chancellor of Chautauqua University:
My Dear Doctor Vincent:
It gives me great pleasure to be able to offer this summer, at Chautauqua, a course in Latin and Greek of unusual merit. Of the assistant teachers, Mr. Otto is already favorably known to our pupils of last summer, and to many correspondence students as an energetic and thorough teacher. Dr. Bevier will be a great acquisition for Chautauqua. He was graduated from Rutgers with first honors, having also during his course won honors in Latin and Greek at the inter-collegiate contest. After graduation he studied at Johns Hopkins University (which conferred on him the degree Ph.D.), and then continued his studies in Europe. He was a student at the American School at Athens, Greece, and is now an enthusiastic and successful teacher.
Although our session in Latin last year began a week late, and we suffered from other disadvantages, I believe our numbers in Latin reached a total unparalleled in the history of Chautauqua.
What was, however, especially gratifying, was the improved quality of scholarship manifested by students.
For this summer we offer the following course:
1. Roman Law (using the Institutes of Justinian) with information. Not only every lawyer, but every teacher of Latin to-day should familiarize “thon”self with Roman law, lying, as it does, at the base of Roman civilization.
2. The Latin of the early Church Fathers.—Recent publication and discussion have rendered so prominent the influence of the early Latin Fathers on church doctrine that every clergyman, present or prospective, will do well to examine this question for himself.
3. Comparative Philology.—(Every student preparing to enter either of these three classes should at once communicate with the principal, that there may be no delay at the opening of the session, in securing apparatus.)