Professor Parker's Fourth Lecture

Professor C. P. Parker yesterday afternoon delivered his fourth lecture on "Methods of Teaching Latin in Secondary Schools." His subject for the lecture was "Instruction in Poetry."

The poetry requirement in advanced Latin is, and has been for years, not Vergil at sight but the translation at sight of Latin verse, and not merely of Vergil. The practical limitation of this requirement to Vergil is obviously absurd, and defeats its own object,--that is, the testing a candidate's power to deal with a new piece of Latin. The time has come when it is the duty of the Latin examiner to rise to the real Harvard requirement. The whole field of Latin verse is open to him, from which to choose his sight passages. This applies to all advanced Latin examinations, old plan or new plan.