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At 06:41 AM 09/09/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Come on, guys.  This is a discussion about methodology,not about
>marketing or cowardice in selling our field. let's represent each other
>with more care.

If that *is* the case, why, then, the reluctance to crow about such things 
to get more butts into seats then? If students were made aware of such 
things, do you not think it would influence at least some of them into 
e.g., taking that classics course instead of that english course?

I genuinely wish we had all these fancy exams up here in the great white 
north so I could use results like those mentioned to boost the classical 
presence in Canada. I'm currently trying to convince my own school board 
that there is need for a Latin/Classics program, especially in a system 
with schools named after Loyola and Aquinas. Of course, I am told that 
there is no demand for Latin and of course, there is no demand because 
people don't know about it ...

dm
(who yesterday picked up two interesting tomes at a garage sale ... one 
Buchan's *Augustus* (which was dedicated to Canadian Prime Minister William 
Lyon Mackenzie King), and a translation of Samuel de Champlain's memoirs of 
his explorations ... the man clearly had a classical education)

.