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Latin Becoming Most Popular
High School Language Course
Latin is becoming the District
high school students’ choice over
modern languages.
Because it “lives” in the high
school classes here, Miss Emilie
M. White, head of the Depart
ment of Foreign Languages of
the ^District public schools, said
“Latin is not on its way out.”
Its row is harder to hoe in other
parts of the country, however,
she added.
About If per cent of the stu
dents in senior high schools last
year signed up for Latin, and
15 per cent of the junior high
school students chose it. In both
cases, the students picked it over
electives usually regarded as more
colorful.
Of course, there has been a drop
in all language study in the last
30 years, because the subject is
no longer required in public
schools.
Teaching Methods Change.
District records show that, in
the 1947-8 school year, 17 per
cent of junior high school stu
dents took Latin; 9.5 per cent,
French, and 7.7, Spanish. In
senior high schools, 11.5 per cent
took Latin; 9.9, French; 19.5,
Spanish, and 3.4, German.
Proclaimed “deader than a door
nail” these many years, Latin was
dug from its grave here by the
late Miss Mildred Dean, when
she headed the language depart
ment in 1931. She died in 1941.
The old-style method of end
less memorization of declensions
and conjugations is no more,”
said Miss White, who learned her
Latin that way. "Students are
taught to see Latin in everything
they do.”
Foreign Investments
Urged as Peace Aid
The investment of more private
capital in backward nations to
achieve world peace was urged last
night by Willis C. Armstrong,
State Department official.
Mr. Armstrong was one of four
panel speakers at a meeting of
the Young Democrats of the Dis
trict in All Souls Church, Six
teenth and Harvard streets N.W.
The others were Harry Reed,
executive secretary of the CIO;
Mrs. Margaretta Austin, represent
ing World Federation, and Thomas
Dailey of the Young Democrats,
who recently returned from a
European tour.
Mr. Armstrong, who is deputy
chief of the Economic Resources
and Securities staff at the State
Department, declared the best
way to guarantee world stability
is to maintain a healthy economic
condition in the United States.
He recommended continued relief
to foreign nations and a greater
import trade for this country by
removing trade restrictions.
Mr. Reed agreed that the United
States must put its own house in
order before it can impress other
nations with the value of democ
racy.
“Even then,” he said, “we can’t
export democracy. But we can
help other countries get on a
sound economic footing so that
they can make their own free
choice.”
Mrs. Austin contended the world
must be persuaded to adopt
democratic ideals, if it is to sur
vive.
Mr. Dailey said he was encour
aged by evidence of a greater faith
in democracy among European
young people than was apparent
before the war.
Moderator of the discussion was
Robert Reiter. John Foley, pres
ident of the club, announced
President Truman is expected to
address a meeting of the group
next month.
Leeman Sees Chance
For Home Rule in 1950
The sesquicentennial year is
“our best chance of obtaining
home rule,” the newly elected
president of the Federation of
Citizens’ Associations told the Co
lumbia Heights Citizens’ Associa
tion last night.
Herbert P. Leeman, speaking
before a meeting in the Colum
bia Heights Christian Church
Hall, 1435 Park road N.W.,
strongly urged the members of
the group to get behind the home
rule bill currently in Congress
to make it law during the next
session.
A home rule bill has passed
the Senate and is now stalled in
the House District Committee, he
emphasized. It can be gotten out
of this committee by means of
a petition signed by half the
members of the House, he pointed
out. Such a petition has been
started, he explained, and already
has nearly 50 signatures.
The association responded to
his talk by reaffirming its support
of the home rule bill and indors
ing the petition to get It out of
the House committee.
Ernest W. Howard, president,
conducted the meeting.
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Such things are brought to
their attention as terms like
“habeas corpus” tyou may have
the body) and “ex post facto”
(after the deed has been done),
which appear in the news; classi
cal allusions like an “Achilles
heel" (a vulnerable spot) and
"Trojan horse” (overthrow by a
treacherous means). and the Latin
mottoes of the United States,
"E pluribus unum” (one out of
many), and of the District, "Jus
titia omnibus” (justice for all).
Familiar Songs in Latin.
District students sing the Latin
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Night.” They learn that “cab",
is an abbreviation of cabriolet, a
diminutive meaning “a little goat’s
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No courses in Greek are offered
in District schools, and German
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Spanish has boomed In recent
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