“Lindsey Monds, a senior Latin major at Centenary, says she understands that if the cuts there ‘are based on numbers,’ then Latin would be on the list. But she says that the loss will be real for future students who won’t be able to experience what she is able to do now. She’s read many of the classic works in English and says that does not substitute for reading and thinking about them in Latin. She says that the beauty and power of the language in, say, the death of Priam in the Aeneid, bring her to tears in Latin. ‘It is not as powerful in English.’ Something important is lost, she says, if she’s the last Latin major. ‘It’s really sad to me. It’s as if somebody took away the reading of Shakespeare,’ she says. ‘Latin has been studied, these poets have been read, for as long as Jesus has been worshiped. That’s a really long time.’”
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