Oct 29, 2009 - Sale 2192

Sale 2192 - Lot 187

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HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY (MUSICIANS.) BERNSTEIN, LEONARD. Autograph Manuscript Signed, twice, a high school essay discussing whether knowledge of Latin is necessary, with the instructor's marks throughout, including "Your argument is far from convincing" in the top margin of the first page. Signed at the top right of the first and third pages. 3 1/2 pages, 8vo, ruled paper; two holes punched in left margin. [Boston], 1 Oct[ober] 1934
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". . . For the laboring man, I should not recommend study of the language. A man . . . in the non-professional world would have need of it neither in society, nor in his work, nor in his particular intellectual life. His life is a triangle with himself, his work, and his family as vertices.
". . . My own father, in speaking of Latin, has remarked, rather vehemently, 'Rubbish! We would see a finer generation of men emerging from the schools if they would omit the Latin and give some instruction in Life!' . . ."