# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S55
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Ky. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1926. 55

History and description. (Grammar — Translation Method.)

Advanced prose and poetry. (Grammar — Composition Method.)

New Testament philology, grammar, and reading.

Action. — Four years is the normal amount of time to be de-
voted to the study of Greek in order that the aims set forth may be
attained. Teaching of Greek in Sophomore High was considered an
unsatisfactory arrangement.

Latin. — To lay the foundation of the fundamentals of classic
Latin by teaching the essentials of grammar and by a great deal of
sight-reading from Latin, according to some acknowledged system of
grading; to have the more advanced linguists among the students
become acquainted with some of the foremost Latin authors; to do
some sight-reading in Patristic and Medieval Latin with all students
* and assist the more advanced in cursory reading in this field.

e Nots. — If the course of study and the methods of teaching will per-
mit, the indtvidual school may go beyond the objectives here outlined and
try to approach the aims common to all the classical departments in Ameri-

can colleges, as given in Klapper, College Teaching, chap. XX; The Teacher
of the Classics, by William K. Prentice, p. 405 f.

Latin.
(Analysis. )

Reading-material not included in project. Facjle use of simple
declarative sentences, also in interrogative form, in topics pertaining
to ordinary life, in paragraphs of not more than three sentences.
(Direct Method. Text-books: Mutting;. Game and Clark; Collar
and Daniel; Bennett through four years of course. )

Compound sentences in descriptive and historical narrative.
(Direct Method.) .

Mastery of individual complex sentences in unit paragraphs in
written composition and in translation, in single declarative and
interrogative sentences in oral composition. (Grammar — Translation
: Method.)

d Mastery of advanced translation of historical material and simple
E : poetry. (Grammar — Composition Method.)

Medieval Literature.

. Advanced poetry. oo
Aotion. — Insert words “not read in class” after “foremost Latin

authors.” The aim may be attained in a five-year course, in our

opinion, beginning preferably in Freshman High. =

“But Latin should not be entirely dropped in Sophomore College

‘Class.” — Survey Committee. .

The advisability of beginning Latin in Sophomore High was dis-

cussed (difficulty of studying two foreign languages in Freshman

‘vs. benefits of grammar and sentence analysis).