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Greekless. Oxford and Cambridge still stand 

 firm and make some modicum of Greek a nec- 

 essary part of their initial examination. This 

 is not always a popular attitude. During the 

 battle which has been raging now intermit- 

 tently for ten years and more, we have been 

 told the truth about ourselves with remarkable 

 candor, and our future has been painted in 

 very lurid colors. We are the homes of 

 dead languages and undying prejudice. 

 We are obstacles in the path of progress. 

 Multi-millionaires will not assist our poverty, 

 and eventually the State will make a clean 

 sweep of our colleges, and start us afresh on 

 lines more in harmony with the best traditions 

 of democracy. These threats are backed up 

 by the sweetly reasonable and enlightened per- 

 sons who love Greek so much that they cannot 

 bear to associate it with a compulsion which 

 runs counter to our finer instincts ; nobody, in 

 fact, ought to be compelled to learn anything, 

 except perhaps a little mathematics. And 

 compulsion, they say, is quite unnecessary; for 

 they refuse to believe that the world will ever 

 not wish to learn Greek. Somehow or other 



