"You know, the foot-ball players have to train before the big game.

And that is what Latin does for the thinker.
It trains." "Rot and bosh! That's what they told us when we were kids.

But there is one thing they didn't tell us then.

They let us find it out for ourselves afterwards." Olney paused for effect, then added, "And what they didn't tell us was that every gentleman should have studied Latin, but that no gentleman should know Latin." "Now that's unfair," Ruth cried.

"I knew you were turning the conversation just in order to get off something." "It's clever all right," was the retort, "but it's fair, too.