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exclusively literary training. The value of the 

 cargo does not compensate for a ship's being out 

 of trim; and I should be very sorry to think that 

 the Scientiiic College would turn out none but 

 lop-sided men. 



There is no need, however, that such a catas- 

 trophe should happen. Instruction in English, 

 French, and German is provided, and thus the 

 three greatest literatures of the modern world are 

 made accessible to the student. 



French and German, and especially the latter 

 language, are absolutely indispensable to those 

 who desire full knowledge in any department of 

 science. But even supposing that the knowledge 

 of these languages acquired is not more than 

 sufficient for purely scientific purposes, every 

 Englishman has, in his native tongue, an almost 

 perfect instrument of literary expression; and, in 

 his own literature, models of every kind of literary 

 excellence. If an Englishman cannot get literary 

 culture out of his Bible, his Sliakospeare, his 

 Milton, neither, in my belief, will the profoundest 

 study of Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, 

 give it to him. 



Thus, since the constitution of the College 

 makes sufficient provision for literary as well as 

 for scientific education, and since artistic instruc- 

 tion is also contemplated, it seems to me that a 

 fairly complete culture is offered to all wlio are 

 willintr to take advantaixe of it. 



