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has long ceased to be so. The one exception is Music and in 

 Music, as in the other Arts, Smalls Greek is required ; harmony 

 and the sonata, like all human excellences, are rooted and 

 grounded in Hellenism. But in the so-called " Research 

 Degrees " in Letters and in Science the only initial qualification 

 for a non-graduate, that is to say for a member of the general 

 public aged twenty-one, is that he should " have given evidence 

 that he has received a good general education satisfactory to the 

 committee constituted for the purpose." There is nothing in 

 the statute which regulates these degrees to limit the discretion 

 of the committee in respect of remission from Greek ; and by an 

 amending statute the degree of any British university, however 

 "dehumanized," admits without scrutiny. Nor does the consti- 

 tution of the committee itself secure a majority of Grecians ; the 

 Faculty Boards of Theology and Literae Humaniores have only 

 one representative each in a total number of ten. What the 

 practice of this committee may be it is perhaps best not to 

 inquire too closely ; but as we have seen already, it can be 

 acquitted of the suspicion that it does not think for itself. 



Besides the Research Degrees, there is now a whole series 

 of " Diplomas " in Anthropology, Classical Archaeology, Geo- 

 graphy, Economics and Political Science, Education, Forestry 

 and Rural Economy. In Classical Archaeology both Greek and 

 Latin are required, since the subject demands them : and the 

 standard required is a high one. But for no other Diploma 

 is Greek required. Candidates in Forestry and Rural Economy 

 have to satisfy the same committee as admits to the Research 

 Degrees ; in all other courses the committee which provides the 

 teaching and awards the Diploma is the sole judge of the 

 candidate's " good general education." 



Thus the university has already established a number of 

 excellent courses for which Greek is not pre-requisite. All 

 that is necessary, to give them the distinction and status which 

 they deserve and to induce the university to add greatly to 

 their variety, is for a sufficient number of the right sort of men 

 — not, let me hasten to explain, in the conventional sense in 

 which the words have been quoted elsewhere ! but in their 

 natural meaning — to come up and take them and having taken 

 them to go out into the world and succeed. 



These are the way into Oxford now, for the Greekless man. 



1 Times, January 20, 191 1. 



