🖙 Latin students must have the “Hand-Book of Latin Synonyms.” (Ginn, Heath & Co.)
I hope you will give us at Chautauqua zealous students, who will concentrate their work on Latin and Greek, but especially two classes: Teachers of Latin and Greek, and those who are absolutely BEGINNERS. A clear-headed student who doesn’t know a word of Latin, can, by devoting six weeks to it, secure FIVE HOURS per day (Beginners and Cæsar) or ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HOURS in six weeks—quite as much time as the average school gives in one year.
It is thought that teachers of Latin and Greek will find not only the method of value, but also the inspiration which indubitably does arise when teachers gather.
Your ob’t servant,
Edgar S. Shumway, Principal.
Rutgers College, February 23, 1885.
The C. L. S. C. Correspondence Department, though not often heard from publicly, is doing an important work. Several hundred students are enrolled upon its books, and the work is being prosecuted this year with renewed vigor. An Illinois lady writes: “Having enjoyed and been benefited by the letters of my C. L. S. C. correspondent, I very much wish to continue that branch of the work this year. We followed no special plan, but the letters I received encouraged and strengthened me, and kept me from falling by the wayside. I love the C. L. S. C. and am proud to say I have gained for it some members. In my judgment the Correspondence Circle is grand, good and beneficial.” From New Hampshire comes the following: “I tender hearty thanks to the originator of the Correspondence Circle. The frequent letters of my two correspondents are a continual stimulus. The sympathetic words, the exchange of essays, the comparing of work done, I find very helpful, while the questions of my bright girl correspondent have led me to search for and find many items of information I should have otherwise neglected.” These and many similar letters received from members of the Correspondence Department show how helpful this work is proving to many isolated members of the Circle, shut out from all other means of communication with their fellow students.
From a circle in Connecticut numbering five members comes the suggestion that Local Circles be put in communication with each other, the correspondence to be carried on, of course, through the respective secretaries. There is no reason why a correspondence of this sort should not prove both interesting and valuable, as it will serve to increase the feeling of fraternity among local circles, give opportunities for the exchange of programs, the discussion of difficulties, and in other ways make the circles of practical benefit to each other.