Are Ancient Languages Necessary?
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Gracious reader,
For most of Western history, knowledge of Latin (and Ancient Greek) were the foundation of education.
When Yale was founded, students were supposed to converse only in Latin. When Cotton Mather—the son and grandson of two famous English puritan preachers in America—was a student at Harvard, he could listen to a lecture in English and t…
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