GENERAL STATEMENT.
In this School are taught the Romanic Languages. These are the
languages into which Latin developed after the fall of the Roman
Empire. Three of these idioms, French, Spanish, and Italian, have
influenced profoundly and are abidingly interwoven with the fabric of
our modern civilization. Others, like Portuguese and Roumanian, have
the future still before them and seem destined, especially Portuguese,
to assume no unimportant rôle among the languages of the earth.
Others, still, like Provençal, flourished for a moment, colored literature
for all time, and, then, waned to the importance and dimensions of a
dialect.
