Excerpt from Rosenthal's Common Sense Method of Practical Linguistry: The French LanguageIn a very clear, conclusive, and elaborate argument he showed that the study of Latin and Greek, as pursued in our schools and colleges, was practically worthless, that scarcely any of our students could read the ancient classics with ease and enjoyment, and that not even the teachers themselves were able to use these tongues colloquially.He closed his speech with an eloquent appeal to the College authorities that greater attention should hence forth be paid to the study of modern languages, and many of our leading Universities have since hen endeavored to act upon his advice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.