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service, these are of the greatest value, and 

 they may be the result of more than one line 

 of educational effort. The old-time formal 

 and literary attitude, with facility in a particular 

 group of academic subjects, is much to be 

 prized; but sensitiveness to life is the highest 

 product of education. 



I read recently in a college paper that " the 

 classics are the source of culture, all culture, 

 and they always have been " ; and again : 

 " Greek, once considered the foundation of all 

 culture, is fast dying out, and our whole system 

 of education for the sake of culture and power 

 is threatened with destruction by the ever- 

 increasing flood of materialism in scientific 

 courses, and of practicalism in the professional 

 courses. The task of stemming this flood has 

 given rise to the most vital and difficult 

 problems of the modern university." I wish 

 that we had more Greek, but I do not admit 

 that Greek or any other group of subjects is 

 the sole source of what we ought to know as 

 " culture," nor that " materialism " is a result 

 of scientific courses, nor that " practicalism " 



