Says esoteric courses enrich learning

By Tracy Jan, The Boston Globe, March 30, 2009

When Harvard was founded nearly four centuries ago, all students read and spoke Latin. They had to: Lectures were delivered primarily in the ancient tongue, and the classics was pretty much all they could study.

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