A very popular high school text used was >>>’s Latin for Americans. That name was shortened up to Tin for Cans amongst classics students of the mid-70s.

At the U of M, if one were an athlete one would take a class from one Waldo Sweet.

If one were a classicist, it was tough to compete with football players who would write on a card that at a party they stood on their head to see if they could drink like the Romans on the vases pictured in our book. I learned later from two lawyers I worked with that Sweet was (in)famous for giving A’s to the jocks.

Sweet wrote a textbook with Seligson. Yech. First year Latin classes at Michigan used it since it was by two big Michigan linguists.

I didn’t ever know Wheelock, but it was no Wheelock. Wheelock is the Caddy of Latin texts. Moreland and Fleischer is very good too.

It is too bad I never got a job teaching Latin. I have such a good foundation and can communicate to the kids what it is I am trying to teach. Oh well... As one friend told me upon learning I was teaching Latin, “That’s probably what you should have done to begin with.”