Excerpt from Cicero in Maine, and Other Essays
When I was a girl attending the high school, - a when that opens the gateway into a magic land of youth, - we were fortunate enough to have a teacher who was, as I heard a college youth phrase it the other day, "dead stuck on Latin." It was not simply that this gifted man had a passion for Latin literature, but he was, or seemed so to our youthful imaginations, besotted with the grammar of the language. No degree of proficiency or distinction to which we could attain in the matter of fluent translations was ever allowed to excuse us from the daily collection of gems of knowledge from Andrews and Stoddard"s Latin Grammar.
The class of which I was a member was a small but unique aggregation.
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