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ent comforts ; they cultivate our sympathy with 

 the joys and sorrows, the hopes and disappoint- 

 ments, of past generations ; they preserve us from 

 the worst effects of the petty annoyances and 

 carking anxieties of daily life, the //.epical /3iw- 

 TIKCU, against which the highest religious and eth- 

 ical teaching has solemnly warned us. These are 

 benefits too priceless to be thrown away, in order 

 that our young men may gain a year or two for 

 their professional labours; and they are amply 

 sufficient to justify the university in continuing, 

 as it has always done, to make classical scholar- 

 ship an indispensable part of a liberal education. 



Our hasty survey of these various departments 

 of study brings to light claims on the part of 

 each one which cannot wisely be ignored. In 

 order adequately to perform its first great duty 

 of evoking the mental capacities, the university 

 must extend some recognition to all. Some pro- 

 ficiency in mathematics, in each of the physical 

 and moral sciences, in history, and in classics 

 should be demanded of every student who wishes 

 to take a degree. The amount of work needful 

 to be done in each of these branches in order to 

 satisfy the requirements of a liberal education, it 

 is for professors and tutors to determine. But 



