Latin at Walt Whitman

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I vaguely remember an episode in which the students try to protect an elderly male Latin teacher's job threatened by declining enrollments. With encouragement from the teachers, Jason reads Ovid's _Art of Love_ on the radio and students sign up en masse only to be disillusioned by learning declensions of Latin nouns. Is it episode 59, Hail and Farewell, a reference to the last line of Catullus' poem 101 "Ave atque vale"? Any other details or corrections anyone can add to my recollection?

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I obtained a copy of Eisner & Krinsky, Television Comedy Series, and found the answer to my question. The Fading of the Elegant Beast was the title of the episode. Eisner & Krinsky's plot summary: "Pete tries to help the school Latin teacher who is being replaced with a teaching computer."