beauty, and power. Greek literature holds 

 its place, not because scholars have com- 

 bined to keep alive its traditions and make 

 familiarity with it the bond of the fellow- 

 ship of culture, but because it is the faithful 

 reflection of the life of a race who faced the 

 world on all sides with masterly intelligence 

 and power. It is a liberal education to have 

 travelled from ^Eschylus, with his almost 

 Asiatic splendour of imagination, to The- 

 ocritus, under whose exquisite touch the 

 soft outlines of Sicilian life took on idyllic 

 loveliness ! 



And then there were those unbroken 

 winter evenings, when one began really 

 to know the great modern masters of litera- 

 ture. What would one not give to have 

 them back again, with their undisturbed 

 hours ending only when the fire or the 

 lamp gave out! Those were nights of 

 royal fellowships, of introduction into the 

 noblest society the world has ever known, 

 and it is the recollection of this companion- 

 ship which gives those days under college 

 roofs a unique and perennial charm. Then 

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