Note 804 — Chapter XVI · The Method of Teaching in Practice.

President Eliot says: “A second interesting result of effective leadership in a few American colleges and schools is to be seen in the adoption of the so-called Roman pronunciation of Latin, which being recommended by two or three Professors of Latin in leading institutions, spread rapidly over the whole United States, and is now the accepted pronunciation in most schools and colleges.” Educational Reform, p. 298.—But Professor Bennett of Cornell university calls it a “fundamental blunder and its retention a serious mistake.” The Teaching of Latin in the Secondary School, p. 66.—See Latin Pronunciation, a Brief Outline of the Roman, Continental and English Methods, by D. E. King (Boston, Ginn and Company, 1889).—The Roman Pronunciation of Latin, by Francis Lord (Boston, Ginn, 1895).