of other things and that will help to rest you. For a while two of us girls took our dinners at a tea room but there were so many tired looking teachers that it was depressing, and so we went to other places where people talked to each other more and seemed to be in good spirits. Teachers have a tendency to play with their co-workers and since these are largely women they do not have a good opportunity to meet and mingle with men to any great extent and get their point of view. Nor do they always know many women in other occupations. My second suggestion, then, is that you chum with some one who is not a teacher, and if you want a room-mate select one who will not talk shop, perhaps a congenial business girl. You will find this arrangement of mutual benefit because you will both make contacts outside your own circle. Members of college faculties have said that one of the greatest compensations in their work is the many friends they have made among their colleagues; they have many interests and their intercourse is both stimulating and inspiring. But if a college professor needs to associate with people in other occupations, surely a young teacher with fewer interests and a meager knowledge of life would profit by doing so. Go where you will meet new people and show that you are interested in folks in general. This leads to my next point which is that you go especially where you can get some inspiration. A teacher needs to grow spiritually (and I mean spiritually in the broad sense of the term) if she is to inspire children or young people, and she will have to decide for herself where she can best get that mental pabulum. She will, no doubt, get much through her own reading and if she can find an interesting, thought-provoking discussion group or Sunday School class, she may be able to get something and to contribute much and she will become acquainted with some people who are interested in worth-while things. Through this some valuable friendships may develop, for we naturally find our friends among people whose ideals and interests are similar to our own, and the wider our range of interests the larger will our circle of friends be. Try the different churches and see if there is not at least one minister who can give you a broader outlook on life and a bigger interpretation and a better understanding of the meaning of the Kingdom of God than you had before. There will perhaps be excellent mucical entertainments, good lectures and worth-while meetings that will be invaluable to you. My fourth suggestion is that you have a hobby. Nature study, music, old furniture, any one of a great many things and if you do not find any kindred spirits here, you will at least stand out as an individual who can do something interesting. I have reserved my most important point till last. I consider it such because it will have the most far-reaching effect: It will be of great benefit to you in your own life; it will vitalize your work and it will be of some importance to your community. I propose that you do some kind of community work. What you should do will depend on what you are most capable of doing; on what kind of leadership you developed in college or later that was not required of you but which you thought might be of value some time. Then when you have decided what you can do best, I would suggest that you select that which someone else cannot do so well or won't do. If there are others who can teach a Sunday School class, reserve your energy for a troop of Girl Scouts or a community music club or recreation work. Whatever you do, let it be something that is really needed. Small towns and rural communities need leaders as well as good followers; people who can sense the situation and see what the community needs and will take the initiative in improving the situation. I taught in a town of four hundred which had one church, but it was nearly dead and there was no Sunday School. Obviously the need there was for a revival of interest in spiritual matters. I soon found that the interest was not dead, for after I had organized a Sunday School and that was succeeding it was not difficult to get the women of the town interested in painting and papering the church and making it an attractive looking place. Every Friday evening we had a well trained young minister come from a near-by city to preach and the church was filled. All that had been needed was someone to arouse a little enthusiasm and awaken the feeling of responsibility. Perhaps you are in a small town that has many old people, interesting folks whose memories go back beyond the Civil War. They need a good listener or perhaps some one who will read to them and discuss various subjects with them. If you know literature and like to talk about it or read aloud, you will find some married woman equally interested in it who may be at home alone on "lodge night" and would enjoy it with you. If you have a large outlook on life and can share it with others, you will find women who will gladly exchange their hospitality for what you have to give. When you are in their homes, are you especially interested in what you can bring to them or are you concerned about how much they are going to mean to you? Much depends on whether you began early to develop the art of conversation and whether you are interested in many subjects and genuinely interested in other people. I have not mentioned the many bigger needs of a community which would require experience in some of these lesser things or some knowledge of sociology. What I have suggested will show your interest in folks and in your community and these are the first essentials. If you have these, then the more important work to be done will present itself. I said that this work would help you. It will do that because it is restful to have a change of occupation; it will enlarge your circle of acquaintances and friends, and, most important of all, it will enlarge your horizon and make you more self-sufficient so that when you have won most friends, you will need them least, but of course you will then have more to give them. It will also help to vitalize your work. Just as the work of a minister is more effective if he mingles some with folks outside of his congregation, so a teacher can do better work if she knows something of the community in which her young charges live. A prominent juvenile judge said in his desperation that he wished a thousand men would come into the city and ruin those insensible teachers and perhaps they would understand better some of the problems of the growing boy and girl. If you do something which is needed, it is not necessary to say that the community will profit by it. Perhaps you will do it for your own diversion and satisfaction at first, but gradually you will come to look upon your compensation only as a by-product, for you will have learned one of the significant lessons of life which is that happiness cannot be found when sought directly but it comes as a result of giving one's self, whole-heartedly in service for others. More Light Another dawn-a rosy flush While still the base is deep in shade The pinnacle is bright. To those who climb-the way seems long; Some weary of the fight; Yet others still with courage strong Are struggling toward more light. HARRIET RUNDLE, San Diego, Calif. T Educational Value of Latin THEODORE W. NOON, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. HERE are over 500,000 students who are taking 2. Mental Discipline Theory. Professional Value Theory. Lessons of moral value may be given indirectly. Skill in reasoning out questions in Latin syntax does not imply skill in business transactions. The direct method gives better results in the study of derivatives. The number entering upon the study of law, theology, medicine, is altogether disproportionate to the number studying Latin. The educational value of Latin appears in the gain in the power of expression which is derived from the process of relating words to thoughts, in rejecting, in weighing, in comparing through the medium of written translation. Better results in this respect are gained through the study of Latin than through the study of modern languages. Compare the Latin word "res" which has fifty different meanings. To secure these results, form drill, syntax work, writing of EnglishLatin sentences must aim at acquiring ability to render into good English at sight a passage selected from the Latin text. The study of Latin occupies a prominent place in the curriculum of the American High School. There are over 500,000 pupils of High School age who take this subject. What is the educational value of Latin that justifies the attention given to it? It is the purpose of this article to show that the real |