Excerpt from Greek Composition for Schools: With Exercises Based on Anabasis I-III, College Entrance Papers, and Original Selections

For practice in conversation a few questions in Greek are appended to each of the exercises on Books I and II. The limitations of space made it impossible to add more; but similar questions can easily be framed by teachers who are interested in this sort of work.

The Supplementary Exercises, consisting of entrance examination papers of leading American and Canadian universities and selections from literary sources, are liber ally annotated. The latter exercises have been selected from a larger number that were thoroughly tested for several years with classes preparing for admission to college. The notes consist chiefly of recasts of idiomatic phrases into language suitable for literal translation into Greek and of refer snees to the first four books of the Anabasis for words and phrases. In this way the student is obliged to make some effort of his own before he can avail himself of the assist ance given. The occasional reading of a few sentences in Greek in the midst of composing can not fail to be helpful and stimulating. These pieces of real English it is hoped will prove a welcome change to both teacher and student. It is recommended that the Supplementary Exercises be not deferred too long. My experience has been that they can be translated with profit by a class whose vocabulary is limited to the first book of the Anabasis. It was found that more real progress was made, for, instead of imitating and copying, the students were obliged to think for themselves.

One of the most serious difficulties that the teacher of Greek has to cope with is the paucity of the average stu dent's english-greek vocabulary. To render the acquisi tion of a vocabulary comparatively easy, the chief words and phrases of the Anabasis are classified under thirty nine heads. The association of similar expressions will facilitate the process of memorizing. NO great difficulty will be experienced in committing the bulk of the Word lists to memory, as a large proportion of the words already form part of the student's greek-english vocabulary, after he has read several books of the Anabasis. How ever, the Index will render it possible to use the Word lists in connection with the Supplementary Exercises without memorizing them.

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