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Now that we all know it was neither Socrates nor Epictetus who learned
Greek at 81 (because, you see, being Greeks they did not have to study
the language), you may like to know something about Julius Caesar. He
was, narrates a high school paper, "the noblest of English kings. He
learned Latin late in life in order to translate an ecclesiastical work
into the vernaculary of the common people."
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We are reminded by our learned friend, W. F. Y., that Socrates began at
64 to study English, but had to give it up as a bad job. "The fact," he
says, "is interestingly set forth in Montefiori's 'Eccentricities of
Genius.'"
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The attitude of our universities and other quasi-educational
institutions toward Greek is that 81 is the proper age for beginning the
study of it.
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Breathing defiance of the Eighteenth Amendment, Jay Rye and Jewel
Bacchus were married in Russellville, Ark., last Sunday.
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The Wetmore Shop, on Belmont avenue, advertises "Everything for the
baby."
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Sir: I feel that the time has come to call your attention to a letter
received from C. A. Neuenhahn, of St. Louis. It concludes CAN/IT.