A Latin teaching position, which has been posted by the East Aurora School District since last fall, has yet to be filled.

East Aurora is in New York state, apparently, and they are trying to introduce a Latin program. Good for them:

A Latin teaching position, which has been posted by the East Aurora School District since last fall, has yet to be filled.
East Aurora planned to collaborate with the Clarence Central School District to bring Latin to [...]

Parishioners seek to save church, keep Latin Mass

Two news items about the Latin Mass in the USA:
1.
By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | July 25, 2005
As parishioners struggle to save the Holy Trinity Church in the South End from closing, they say they are both fighting the loss of their spiritual home and resisting the possible demise of a tradition found [...]

Bring back grammar schools, urge teachers

Press Association
Wednesday July 27, 2005
Teachers demanded that ministers bring back grammar schools today, reigniting the debate over selection in England's education system.
Bright children are being denied the education they deserve by “one-size-fits-all” comprehensive schools, members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) said.
One delegate at the PAT annual conference in Buxton, Derbyshire, accused the prime [...]

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Why I am not writing up the most surprising lecture

Both the most unpromising title of the Summer School and the most innovative and gripping lecture belonged to Professor Jonathan Powell.
The title was: New perspectives on Latin word order.
Er, yes.
The lecture was the fruit of twenty years of work, inspired by a remark overheard in a senior common room in Oxford: “I saw a good [...]

Stephen Harrison on Aeneid 10

These are almost entirely my jottings taken during the lecture. They should really be read in conjunction with the handout which gives many quotations. It is not on line, I'm afraid. Still, these jottings give some flavour of the lively and humorous nature of the lecture.
Stephen Harrison's commentary on Book 10 is likely to be [...]

Jenny tidied up

I have worked over my notes on Dr Jenny March's lecture now, so they are worth a second visit! It was an excellent lecture, and I have got more from it by having to expand the notes into complete sentences and arrange them into sections and subsections.

Wells Minidorm a success, I hear

Dr Helen Forte has just emailed me the link to the Minimus web site account of the first sleep-over run by Barbara Bell in Wells Cathedral School under the title Minidorm (what else?!). It's here.
Very lively report, with comments from children and lots of pictures, including one of Roger Davies, who came on from Wells [...]

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Summer School 2005: Jenny March on unseen drama

Dr Jenny March
Unseen drama in Greek Tragedy.
A lecture delivered to the Association for Latin Teaching Summer School
in Royal Holloway College, July 2005

The subject under discussion
Greek tragedy is full of 'dramatic' events, including violence, revenge, murder, suicide and blinding. Some of the violence happens on stage, but how do tragedians convey off-stage events?
The stage setting
Imagine [...]