Out in the Midwest

 

...to see my daughter graduate from a small college.  Very moving, naturally.  She graduated in English and Classics.  At the Classics Department reception we talked to her favorite teacher, still in cap and gown.  Memories of Latin class and those screamingly funny Latin jokes.  When I took Latin in Catholic school 1956-1960, the New Classical pronunciation was known, and used by some teachers, but not all; several used the Italianate Church Latin pronunciation.  In one class we declined th...