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Andrew '19 Wins Latin Oral Reading Contest
On Saturday, April 7, Andrew '19 represented Friends Seminary and won first prize at the New York Classical Club's Oral Reading Contest hosted at Columbia University. Andrew competed against secondary school students, undergraduates, and graduate students. Andrew recited, in metered verse, a passage from Vergil's Aeneid, Book 4, Ovid's Heroides.
The Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Contests are hosted to encourage students to acquire both facility and enjoyment in the oral performance of works of Greek and Latin literature, all of which were originally created with the intention of their being performed orally and not read silently.
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