85 October, 1925 C6 THE Vol. XXI, No. 1 526 CLASSICAL JOURNAL Published by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, with the coöperation of the Editors-in-Chief Associate Editors WALTER MILLER The University of Missouri JULIANNE A. ROLLER Franklin High School, Portland, Ore. University of North Carolina University of Chicago ARTHUR T. WALKER The University of KansasEditor for the Pacific States HERBERT C. NUTTING The University of California CLARENCE W. GLEASON Roxbury Latin School, Boston JOHN A. SCOTT Northwestern University WALTER A. EDWARDS Los Angeles High School, Los Angeles Managing Editor FRANKLIN H. POTTER University of Iowa THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL is published monthly except in July, August, and September by The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The subscription price is $2.50 per year; the price of single copies is 30 cents. Orders for service of less than a half-year will be charged at the single-copy rate. 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The increase in size has been made possible by the increased number of members and subscribers and by the number of articles which have been submitted and accepted. Even so, we shall be obliged to apologize to many contributors whose articles must await their turn for several months. A. T. W. WOODROW WILSON ON THE TEACHING OF CAESAR Mrs. Moses Stephen Slaughter found the following letter among the papers of Professor Slaughter. The editors gratefully appreciate her kindness in sending a copy to the CLASSICAL JOURNAL. The letter was written by Mr. Wilson while he was professor of history at Bryn Mawr. The printed form is an exact copy of the original, even to the punctuation. My dear Mr. Slaughter Bryn Mawr, 2 Aug. '88 Your letter of July 25 has been crowded to the wall by numerous engagements, literary, and other; but it has not by any means been forgotten. I did not mean to throw any very weighty charge at the head of the ordinary teacher of Caesar in what I said when you were out here: I have no 'firstly, secondly, thirdly' on the matter. But my meaning, though simple, was real, and 'meant business'. The whole matter stands in my mind thus: Boys like generals, like fighting, like accounts of battles: if, therefore, they could be given a just conception of the reality of this man Caesar could see him as a sure-enough man (who in his youth, for instance, a fop and a lady-killer, was yet in his full age an incomparable commander and a compeller of liking, nay, of devotion, on the part of the rudest soldier - was himself a lover to strategy and force); if they could be made to realize that these Commentaries were written, in many parts probably, in the camp (on some rude stool, perhaps the noises or the silence of the camp outside) when the deeds of which they tell were fresh in the mind - perhaps also heavy on the muscles of the man who was their author as well as author of their history if, in short, they could be given a fellow-feeling, an enthusiasm, or even a wonder for this versatile fellow-man of theirs, reading the Commentaries would be easy, would be fun and their contents would never be forgotten, I should say. 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