v PAGE FOUR TH E MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JULY t 'R5 U 'U' Sponsors Latin Study Workshop By ELSIE KUFFLER English . . is it a corruption of the Ancient Latin tongue? No, says Prof. Waldo E. Sweet of the summer program in lin- guistics, English and Latin each have their own individual system of grammar. In fact, English in some respect has an even more complicated system. * * * TO HELP do away with this common misconception and many others resulting from erroneous teaching of Latin, the University's Latin Workshop, under the direc- tion of Prof. Sweet, is advocating a new approach to the teaching of the language. This new approach is based on the 100-year old science of linguistics which deals with an- alysis o languages. According to Prof. Sweet, before the science of linguistics had been fully de- veloped, it had been assumed that all languages conformed to a "universal grammar" This rule was especially applied to English and Latin. With the aid of linguistics however, it has been discovered that English is basicly structurally different from Latin. While Latin indicates the doer of the action in a sentence by the form of the noun or the de- clension, English declines declen- sions, so to speak, using word order instead. THE SYSTEM of comparing English to Latin in teaching the latter is therefore ineffective be- cause Latin is dissimilar to Eng- lish in so many ways. To replace this system, the Latin Workshop advocates contrasting the differ- ences in the languages. In order to carry out this method in the classroom, the Workshop is engaged in prepar- ing teaching material that will best exemplify its new philoso- phy toward the nature of lan- guage and the way it should be taught. The Workshop is also training teachers in the utilization of tape recorders, records, slides, film strips, and oral work. Many of these new techniques resemble those used by the army in teach- ing modern languages. * * * THE TWO CHIEF aims of the Latin Workshop are to prepare teaching material for teachers trained in the new light of teach- ing Latin and to eventually in- culcate into textbooks those teach- ing devices which are found def- initely beneficial. Working on a grant from the Carnegie Foundation, the Latin Workshop is composed of 21 teach- ers who will employ its findings and products this year in their classes. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 2) Physical Education Department. Or- chestra and chorus are under the di- rection of Paul Miller, Grad., Music. The entire production is under the di- rection 'of Professor. William P. Hal- stead of the Department of Speech. La p'tite causette meets today from 3:30 to 5:00 in the wing of the north room of the Michigan Union cafeteria. All students and Faculty members in- terested in speaking or learning to speak French in a friendly atmosphere are cordially invited. 8:08p.m.yPresbyterian Summer Stu- dent Fellowship will meet to study, "The Unfolding Drama of the Bible" by Bernhard Anderson. Coming Events Summer Session French Club. Meet- ing on Thursday, July 9, at 8:00 p.m. in the Michigan League. Professor Ben- jamin F. Bart, of the Romance Lan- guage Department will speak on: "Un hiver en France." French songs, games and a social hour. All students and Faculty members interested are cor- dially invited. Hillel Foundation: "Music Calling" on Thursday, July 9, 1953 at 8 p.m. Classical music on the Hi-Fi System. Refreshments. All students welcome. There will be a weekly tea in the form of a garden party at the Madelon Pound House, 1024 Hill Street, from 4:30 to 5:30 Thursday afternoon, July 9. Thursday Lunch Discussion at Lane - Hall. Dr. Amiya Chakravarty, visiting professor from U. of Kansas and Cal- cutta will be resource person, talking on "Modern India" 12:15 noon. Call res- ervations to 3-1511, Ext. 2851. Everyone welcome. Overseas Teachers, DA Civilians, peo- ple interested in government service overseas are invited to have dinner in the Michigan League Cafeteria on Thursday, July 9, going through the line from 5:30-6:00 and meeting at a table marked Overseas Personnel. Tele- phone 3-1511 Ext. 360 for more infor- mation. Classical Studies Coffee Hour. Thurs- day. July 9. 4:00 nm., in the Musum nf Beat the Heat Events The Symposium on X-Ray Dif- fraction will continue with a talk by P. P. Ewald of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute on "Fourier Transformation and X-Ray Dif- fraction by Crystals" at 9 a.m. today in 1400 Chemistry Bldg. Prof. William N. Lipscomb of the University of Minnesota will follow with a talk on "Experimen- tal Studies of Crystal Structures: The Structure Factor and the Re- ciprocal Lattice" at 10 a.m. * * * "Variescripts: Sampling Meth- ods and Preliminary Counts" will be discussed by Prof. MacCurdy Burnet of the Maryland State Teachers College at the Lin- guistic Luncheon Meeting at 12:10 p.m. today in the dining room of the Michigan League. "Galaxies: Their Composition and Structure" will be the topic discussed at the Symposium on Astrophysics by Walter Baade, Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories at 2 p.m. today in 1400 Chemistry Bldg. "Gene Function" will be dis- cussed by G. W. Beadle of the California Institute of Technol- f Today ogy at 4:15 p.m. today in 1300 Chemistry Bldg. Also as part of the radiation biology symposium Prof. Roberts Rugh, of Columbia University will lecture on Effects of Ioniz- ing Radiations on Vertebrate Embryonic Growth and Devel- opment" at 8 p.m. in 1300 Chem- istry Bldg. At 8:30 today in Hill Auditorium, Richard Harper will give an organ recital. The program will include works by Buxtehude, Bach, Langlais, Al- ain, and Durufle. Art Exhibition A University student and an Ann Arbor resident recently had paintings selected for exhibition in the 18th Annual Mid-Year Show of American Art now being held at the Butler Art Institute, Youngs- town Ohio. Works by Jamie Ross, Grad., and William Lewis are among the 311 paintings in the show, which represents 30 states and the Dis- trict of Columbia. 1 T 1 tit .P v f S WcNe Campus ivear ( J ULY 4 eave it to us to concoct a glorious sale in the middle of Summer, with wardrobe, sparkers to round out your summer dresses. Sizes 9 to 15, 0 4 Travel-wear . .. Sports fare . .. cool dresses for every- where. All reduced to a mite in care and price. Hurry in while our selection is big and bubbling with right-ems for now or for next year. 10 to 44, 121/2 to 29 t/. Just off So. University ON FOREST . . . Patrons Parking Lot In Rear NO MATTER how hot it gets in Chicago these youngsters on the west side don't mind it. Their enterprising mothers set out large wash tubs filled with cool water and the happy youngsters splash away to their hearts' content. Many an overheated adult pauses on his way and views the scene with envy as Chicagoans swelter with the temperature in the nineties. DAILY CLASSIFIEDS BRING QUICK RESULTS Just rrived! tlExquisite Evening Bags v with Matching Belts 0 0 INDIA ART SHOP 330 Maynard READ AND USE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS I . i ON SALE TO..DAYk! - .I 1 including names, home addresse I phone S and numbers r. Ann Arbor addresses and of Summer Session students Only