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enable it to compete successfully with the classics. Nowa- 

 days there can be no fair contest, for classics have, so to 

 speak, all the arms and ammunition. Most of those engaged 

 in teaching feel that reform is needed ; that our modern edu- 

 cation is becoming more and more burdensome, and in some 

 respects even less effective than the old ; and we look to the 

 universities to move forward with the times, and to be not 

 the drag upon the chariot-wheels of progress, but our guide 

 and leader in the march against ignorance and blind tradition. 



1. National Art as applied to the Colony. 

 By Kenneth Watkins. 



2. The Horse in connection ivith Art. 

 By J. Thistlethwaite. 



