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 incessantdemand that our Latin instruction must be vivified. Many teachers feelthe need of supplementary work in their Latin teaching, but they havebeen handicapped because of a lack of material as well as a lack oftime. This is especially true of the teacher in the small town. To helpmeet this demand is the purpose of this book.

The programs have purposely been made too long for one session inorder that the teacher may have some choice in selection, and that, incase all references are not accessible, enough may be secured to insurea reasonably varied program.

I would suggest that the Club purchase as many Perry pictures andBerlin photographs of classical subjects as possible and that itsmembers coöperate with the city library board for the purchase of suchbooks as are essential, in case there is no school fund available forthis purpose. Some high school alumnus in whose heart there isappreciation of Rome's gift to us might present a book to his AlmaMater. Another might offer some suitable magazines, properly bound.

Of a Latin Club, as of most school work, it may be said that ususest optimus magister, and especially applicable in this connectionare the words of Horace: Dimidium facti, qui coepit.

Omaha, Nebraska,

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CONTENTS

Programs