A Handbook for Latin Clubs

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Title: A Handbook for Latin Clubs
Author: Various
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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.
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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 co?perate 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 Pompeii Ancient Rome The Roman Forum The Roman House Roman Slaves Roman Children Education among the Romans Some Common Professions and Trades among the Romans Roman Doctors The Roman Soldier Caesar Cicero Vergil Horace Roman Literature Some Famous Women of Ancient Rome Roman Holidays Funeral Customs and Burial Places Roman Games Some Famous Buildings of Ancient Rome Some Famous Roman Letters Some Ancient Romans of Fame A Roman Banquet Roman Roads Some Roman Gods Some Famous Temples of Ancient and Modern Rome Some Religious Customs Some Famous Pictures and Sculpture Roman Book and Libraries Ancient Myths and Legends The Ancient Myth in Modern Literature What English Owes to Greek Modern Rome Italy of To-day O Tempora! O Mores!
SELECTIONS THAT MAY BE USED FOR THE PROGRAMS
A Plea for the Classics Eugene Field On an Old Latin Text Book _T. W. Higginson_ St. Augustine's Love of Latin Andrew Lang The Watch of the Old Gods Old and New Rome Herman Merivale The Fall of Rome Arthur Chamberlain A Christmas Hymn Alfred Dommett Roman Girl's Song _Mrs. Hemans_ Capri Walter Taylor Field Palladium Matthew Arnold After Construing _A. C. Benson_ A Roman Mirror Rennell Rodd The Doom of the Slothful John Addington Symonds Hector and Andromache Schiller _Tr. Sir E. B. Lytton_ Enceladus _Henry W. Longfellow_ Nil Admirari _John G. Saxe_ Perdidi Diem _Mrs. Sigourney_ Jupiter and His Children _John G. Saxe_ The Prayer of Socrates _John H. Finley_ By the Roman Road Anonymous A Nymph's Lament Nora Hopper Helen of Troy Nora Hopper An Etruscan Ring _J. W. Mackail_ Orpheus With His Lute William Shakespeare A Hymn in Praise of Neptune Thomas Campion Horace's Philosophy of Life _Tr. Sir Theodore Martin_ An Invitation to Dine Written by Horace to Vergil _Tr. Sir Theodore Martin_ The Golden Mean. Horace _Tr. Wm. Cowper_ To the Reader. Martial _Tr. Lord Byron_ On Portia. Martial _Tr. Lamb_ To Potitus. Martial _Tr. John Hay_ What Is Given To Friends Is Not Lost. Martial To Cotilus. Martial _Tr. Elton_ The Happy Life. Martial _Tr. Sir Richard Fanshawe_ To a Schoolmaster. Martial _Tr. John Hay_ Epitaph on Erotion. Martial _Tr. Leigh Hunt_ Non Amo Te Gratitude Robert Burns A Hymn to the Lares Robert Herrick Elysium. Schiller _Tr. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton_ Orpheus Robert Herrick Cerberus Oliver Herford The Harpy Oliver Herford Cupid and the Bee Anacreon The Assembly of the Gods. A. Tassoni _Tr. A.