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versities and Theological Seminaries. They are the " scholars " 

 in Greek and Hebrew. They are the experts versed in the 

 niceties of interpretation. They have at their command the 

 whole apparatus of " Higher Criticism/' the facts of history 

 and tradition, the latest results of linguistic research and scholar- 

 ship, the latest finds and excavations. \\'hose religion is the 

 worse because he cannot read the Bible in Greek and Hebrew ? 

 Or because he has not been trained as a specialist in Theology? 



§ i6. Here, then, is the remedy for Classical Education. 

 Let us drop the languages, but let us continue and increase the 

 study of the masterpieces of Greek and Roman writers in the 

 ibest translations which our scholars can furnish. Let us add 

 the study, in picture or cast, of works of art, and, above all, 

 the study of tlie history and thought of Greece and Rome, 

 taught so as to make clear their significance for the general world- 

 history, and their living influence on present-day civilisation. 



Surely this is an ideal of which the realisation would not 

 be unworthy of the be.<^t efforts of all who care for preserving 

 to the modern world an education in Avhat has been well called 

 " The Humanities." 



Agricultural Research Grants.— l he Imperial 



Treasur}- has sanctioned the allocation of funds amoimting to a 

 maximum of £50,000 per annum for distribution by the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries in order to promote agricultural re- 

 search in accordance with a scheme which will secure for each 

 group of the problems aft'ecting rural industry a share of attention 

 roughly proportionate to its economic importance. A\'ith this ob- 

 ject in view eleven groups of subjects have been arranged for, vh. : 

 (i) I'lant physiology, (2) Plant pathology and mycology. (3) 

 Plant breeding, (4) Fruit growing, including the practical treat- 

 ment of plant diseases, (5) Plant nutrition and soil problems, (6') 

 Anim;d nutrition, (7) Animal breeding, (8) Animal pathology, 

 (9) Dairying, (10) Agricultural zoology. (11) Economics of 

 Agriculture. In addition to these a sum of £8^000 will be avail- 

 able for special investigations, for which no other provision is 

 made. The Board of Agriculture hopes to secure the services 

 of trained men for work in connection with this scheme by 

 oft'ering during each of the next three years, twelve scholarships, 

 each tenable for three years and of the value oi £150 per annum. 



