Boys who had not learned their lessons were regularly hit with birch twigs, says a historian.

Harvard has always been hard to get into, but 150 years ago? It was a different kind of hard. We’re talking Latin grammar, ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's worst and best from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Image: Richard B. Levine/Zuma Press Nothing bored me more during the summer of 2008 than the ...

These days, the first lesson of high school Latin is often to answer the question: why Latin? The language peaked in the era of Roman gladiators and slowly faded throughout the Middle Ages. Today, 800 ...

David Morton shares his hopes for the new edition of Cambridge Latin Course, while Virginia Orrey recalls how she was hooked by Winnie Ille Pu A radical new Latin course book is indeed a rara avis – ...