Harvard encourages dusting off the classics
Says esoteric courses enrich learning
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. (Full article: 1076 words)
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