Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
 NY Times, 2 March 2004

"When going on to high school, Notre Dame Academy, it was evident in my classes which students had had Latin in elementary school.  They had an advantage." 

Assumption School Alumni Class of 2001

"It took Latin to thrust me into bona fide alliance with words in their true meaning. Learning Latin...fed my love for words upon words, words in continuation and modification, and the beautiful accretion of a sentence...."

Eudora Welty
One Writer's Beginnings, p. 31

"Law schools report that by yardsticks of law review and grades, their top students come from math, the Classics, and literature - with political science, economics, pre-law, and legal studies ranking lower."

Harvard Magazine
May-June, 1998, p. 50