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The article reflects on the author's view regarding the teaching of applied Latin coordination in schools. The author cites that among the various uses for the coordination in the high school curriculum is between the Latin and French. He adds that in many schools Latin and French language are being taught. The author presents a list of Latin words and their corresponding French and English equivalents.

The article presents the resolution made at the meeting of the American Philological Association on the Committee of Ten's proposition to reduce the Latin preparatory studies. The resolution calls for the retention of the five weekly periods in a span of four years for Latin studies. The association consents to the increase of the number of years for the subject.

The article presents a list of words that end in "cious" and "ceous," with their corresponding Latin word of origin and adjective suffix. The list of the words that end in "cious" includes "voracious" from the Latin word "vorax," "tenacious" from the Latin word "tea," while the list of the words that end in "ceous" includes "cretaceous" from the Latin word "creta," and "foliaceous" from the Latin word "folium."

The article offers suggestions for learning the Latin language. It is said that one should learn every word in the vocabularies. When translating Latin sentences, one should review simple English sentence and practice English parsing.

The article reports on the disapproval of the Latinization of the Chinese written language project by the National Government Ministry of Education on grounds that the traditional Chinese character still serve their purpose. Since 1931, Latinization has been encouraged in China, allowing words to be conveyed through a new system like the use of the letter "X" and new diphthongs. However, this presented a problem in pronunciation compared to the Chinese characters.

Presents the author's personal experience in speaking the Latin language. Highlights of a commemoration event on English and Latin languages; Delivery of oration pieces in Latin; Characteristics of the audience in the commemoration event.