https://emersonlatin.com/news/ Announcements, competition results, student news and essays from Emerson Latinen Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:24:43 +0000 https://emersonlatin.com/news/she-refused-to-guesshttps://emersonlatin.com/news/she-refused-to-guessFri, 30 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0000For fifty years, no one could read Linear B. A Latin teacher from Brooklyn refused to guess, cut 180,000 cards from scrap paper, and found the key in the grammar every Latin student learns first. https://emersonlatin.com/news/starting-latin-winter-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/starting-latin-winter-2026Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Four first courses open November 21 and 22, one for each age: Natural Latin 1, Oxford Latin 1, Grammar Latin 1, and Intensive Latin. https://emersonlatin.com/news/ap-latin-winter-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/ap-latin-winter-2026Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Students who join AP Latin this winter sit the May exam beside students who began in September. Two ways in: weekly from November 21, or the Winter Intensive over Christmas. https://emersonlatin.com/news/what-happens-when-you-write-to-ushttps://emersonlatin.com/news/what-happens-when-you-write-to-usMon, 26 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000Choosing a teacher is hardest at the first message, because you cannot see what it leads to. So here is the map: what happens, step by step, when you write to us. https://emersonlatin.com/news/nobody-needs-a-roman-accenthttps://emersonlatin.com/news/nobody-needs-a-roman-accentSun, 25 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000Every autumn, a parent asks us some version of the same question: her son is in ninth or tenth grade, and his friends began Latin at eleven. Is it too late? https://emersonlatin.com/news/humane-letters-volume-i-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/humane-letters-volume-i-2026Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Humane Letters returns this winter: Emerson Latin’s course in classical English reading and writing for grades 9 to 12, built on the great books. Admission by Viva. https://emersonlatin.com/news/counting-backwardhttps://emersonlatin.com/news/counting-backwardSat, 24 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0000In the eighth grade, I won a Latin contest by counting backward. That contest is the reason every one of my classes begins with one. https://emersonlatin.com/news/winter-term-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/winter-term-2026Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Winter Term begins November 21 and 22: ten weekly two-hour classes, live on Zoom. Find your child’s grade and the course we would recommend. https://emersonlatin.com/news/ncee-fall-2026-preparationhttps://emersonlatin.com/news/ncee-fall-2026-preparationThu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Emerson Latin’s preparation for the fall 2026 National Classical Etymology Exam: two Zoom classes, Novice and Intermediate/Advanced, running November 14 to December 13. https://emersonlatin.com/news/camws-fall-2026-preparationhttps://emersonlatin.com/news/camws-fall-2026-preparationWed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Emerson Latin’s preparation for the fall 2026 CAMWS Latin Translation Contest: an Intermediate small group class and an Advanced private tutorial, November 1 to 29. Registration closes October 31. https://emersonlatin.com/news/yuriyel-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/yuriyel-2026Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Three years into Latin, Yuriyel holds Maxima Cum Laude on the National Latin Exam, a Gold Medal on the National Latin Vocabulary Exam, and induction into the National Latin Honor Society. https://emersonlatin.com/news/riley-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/riley-2026Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Riley holds a Magna Cum Laude distinction in the SCRIBO Latin Writing Contest and has earned Maxima or Summa Cum Laude across four National Latin exams since 2023. https://emersonlatin.com/news/jihan-lee-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/jihan-lee-2026Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Jihan Lee earned a Perfect Paper at the Advanced Poetry level of the National Latin Exam this year, Summa Cum Laude in the SCRIBO Latin writing competition, and a second consecutive nomination for the Maureen O'Donnell Scholarship. https://emersonlatin.com/news/phillip-yoo-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/phillip-yoo-2026Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000In his first year of study, Phillip Yoo earned Gold on the National Latin Exam and the National Latin Vocabulary Exam and was inducted into the National Latin Honor Society. https://emersonlatin.com/news/chaemin-yang-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/chaemin-yang-2026Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000In two years of study, Chaemin Yang has earned Silver and Gold on the National Latin Exam and National Latin Vocabulary Exam and was inducted into the National Latin Honor Society. https://emersonlatin.com/news/joonwoo-back-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/joonwoo-back-2026Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000A little more than a year after arriving with no prior Latin, Joonwoo Back holds Gold Medals in the National Latin Exam and National Latin Vocabulary Exam and was inducted into the National Latin Honor Society. https://emersonlatin.com/news/elisa-min-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/elisa-min-2026Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Elisa Min has earned Gold on the National Latin Exam in 2025 and 2026, Magna Cum Laude in this year's SCRIBO writing contest, and induction into the National Latin Honor Society. https://emersonlatin.com/news/chaeyoon-lee-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/chaeyoon-lee-2026Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Chaeyoon Lee scored a perfect five on the AP Latin exam, holds a Gold Medal in the National Latin Vocabulary Exam, and was inducted into the National Latin Honor Society this year. https://emersonlatin.com/news/the-latin-your-childs-school-doesnt-teachhttps://emersonlatin.com/news/the-latin-your-childs-school-doesnt-teachThu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000A parent writes to ask, almost always in the same words: my child's school doesn't offer Latin. Is that a problem? The honest answer is that it describes... https://emersonlatin.com/news/the-sentence-beneath-the-sentencehttps://emersonlatin.com/news/the-sentence-beneath-the-sentenceTue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000A family weighing an international or boarding school education has already made a wager on English. What is less often understood is that Latin... https://emersonlatin.com/news/the-formation-of-the-elite-mindhttps://emersonlatin.com/news/the-formation-of-the-elite-mindSun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000There is a confusion at the heart of how we speak about education today, and it is worth naming precisely. We use the word elite. We mean expensive... https://emersonlatin.com/news/eidolon-made-flesh-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/eidolon-made-flesh-2026Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000A classicist's review of Nolan's Odyssey: what survived from Homer, the casting debate, and Emily Wilson's own verdict on the film. https://emersonlatin.com/news/victoria-park-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/victoria-park-2026Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Victoria Park has studied at Emerson Latin for seven years, with six consecutive years of Summa Cum Laude on the National Latin Exam. https://emersonlatin.com/news/jonghyun-seo-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/jonghyun-seo-2026Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Jonghyun Seo writes his own diary entirely in Latin, a habit borrowed from the historian Arnold Toynbee. It is one of the more ordinary facts about him. https://emersonlatin.com/news/jio-kim-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/jio-kim-2026Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Jio Kim captained Emerson Latin's varsity team to the National Super-Regional Round, one of only two international teams in a field of 156 schools nationwide. https://emersonlatin.com/news/fall-2026-schedulehttps://emersonlatin.com/news/fall-2026-scheduleTue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000The schedule for the term beginning September 12, 2026 is now available: every course running this fall, listed by day and time in Korea time. https://emersonlatin.com/news/cinematic-eidolon-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/cinematic-eidolon-2026Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000A classicist's assessment of Christopher Nolan's forthcoming Odyssey adaptation: what the trailer gets right, and what it risks losing. https://emersonlatin.com/news/why-emerson-latin-bears-its-namehttps://emersonlatin.com/news/why-emerson-latin-bears-its-nameMon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Educational institutions are often named for benefactors, locations, or founders. Emerson Latin bears the name of a man. https://emersonlatin.com/news/mod-scholarship-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/mod-scholarship-2026Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000It is our privilege to announce that three Emerson Latin scholars have been nominated for the 2026 Maureen O’Donnell Scholarship for Academic Excellence,... https://emersonlatin.com/news/nle-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/nle-2026Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000It is with quiet satisfaction, and with that measured pride which properly attends the cultivation of the Western intellectual inheritance, that Emerson... https://emersonlatin.com/news/sovereign-classroom-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/sovereign-classroom-2026Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000There is a quiet revolution occurring within the walls of America’s elite boarding schools, one wrapped in the mantle of intellectual independence. Over the... https://emersonlatin.com/news/vergilian-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/vergilian-2026Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Vergilian Society has released the results of the 2026 Keely Lake Memorial Translation Exam, and it is a pleasure to announce that Victoria Gyuyeon Park... https://emersonlatin.com/news/ule-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/ule-2026Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Every spring, students across North America sit for the Universal Latin Exam: a competition administered to thousands of learners enrolled in classical... https://emersonlatin.com/news/is-latin-right-for-my-child-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/is-latin-right-for-my-child-2026Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Every serious parent, at some point in the long consideration of her child’s education, arrives at a version of the same question. It is not the question... https://emersonlatin.com/news/camws-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/camws-2026Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Classical Association of the Middle West and South Latin Translation Contest evaluates secondary and university students on a single criterion: the... https://emersonlatin.com/news/nlve-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/nlve-2026Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000The National Latin Vocabulary Exam tests knowledge of Latin vocabulary and inflected forms, organized by years of study, with no passage and no context to... https://emersonlatin.com/news/on-latin-and-the-tests-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/on-latin-and-the-tests-2026Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000There is a familiar anxiety among parents of academically serious students, and it is entirely reasonable. The SAT and ACT are significant instruments in... https://emersonlatin.com/news/latin-varsity-tournament-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/latin-varsity-tournament-2026Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000There is a particular kind of test that reveals not what a student has memorized, but what a student has become: not a test of readiness, but of endurance,... https://emersonlatin.com/news/ncee-2026https://emersonlatin.com/news/ncee-2026Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000The National Classical Etymology Exam tests command of the Latin and Greek roots that underlie the English vocabulary of medicine, law, science, and formal... https://emersonlatin.com/news/njcl-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/njcl-2025Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000Two Emerson Latin students, one at an international school in Korea and one at an American boarding school, placed first at the 2025 NJCL Convention. https://emersonlatin.com/news/nlhs-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/nlhs-2025Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000The National Latin Honor Society recognizes secondary school students who have demonstrated sustained excellence in Latin study. The criteria are specific:... https://emersonlatin.com/news/ap-latin-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/ap-latin-2025Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000The College Board has released the results of the 2025 AP Latin Examination. Two Emerson Latin students received a score of 5: the highest the examination... https://emersonlatin.com/news/scribo-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/scribo-2025Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000SCRIBO accepts only original poems and short stories written in Latin. This is worth stating plainly, because it places the contest in a different category... https://emersonlatin.com/news/camws-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/camws-2025Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000The Classical Association of the Middle West and South Latin Translation Contest draws from high schools and universities across North America. Twenty-seven... https://emersonlatin.com/news/nlve-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/nlve-2025Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000The National Latin Vocabulary Exam tests command of Latin vocabulary and inflected forms, organized into divisions by years of study. There is no passage to... https://emersonlatin.com/news/nle-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/nle-2025Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000More than 100,000 students sat the 2025 National Latin Exam across all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and twenty other countries: among them... https://emersonlatin.com/news/mod-scholarship-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/mod-scholarship-2025Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000The Maureen O’Donnell Scholarship is awarded annually by the National Latin Exam to students who have earned Gold Medals at its most advanced levels... https://emersonlatin.com/news/ncee-2025https://emersonlatin.com/news/ncee-2025Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000The National Classical Etymology Exam is administered to students worldwide and tests command of the Latin and Greek roots that underlie the English... https://emersonlatin.com/news/ap-latin-2024https://emersonlatin.com/news/ap-latin-2024Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000Four Emerson Latin students, including two based in Seoul, earned the top score of 5 on the 2024 AP Latin Examination. https://emersonlatin.com/news/mod-scholarship-2024https://emersonlatin.com/news/mod-scholarship-2024Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000The Maureen O’Donnell Scholarship is awarded annually by the National Latin Exam to students who have earned Gold Medals at the advanced levels of the...