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that. Another, and a less controversial 

 method, is to popularize the classics educa- 

 tionally by doing what we can to adopt our 

 classical curriculum to the needs of the average 

 man, who is not going to be a specialist in any 

 particular line of study. We have him to 

 think of, — perhaps even more than the serious 

 student. And for him, what is a classical cur- 

 riculum? One is at once confronted with a 

 number of excellent maxims, all applicable to 

 the matter in hand, and for the most part 

 mutually destructive : a little knowledge, says 

 one, is a dangerous thing: tt\4ov rjixia-v TrdpTos 

 and juLTjSev oiyav says another. "Good are the 

 Ethics, I wis: good absolute: not for me 

 though" — says the not very serious student in 

 A. H. Clough's poem. Things absolutely ex- 

 cellent may be relatively embarrassing. While 

 the productivity of our writers on classical 

 subjects is an excellent thing, and the exam- 

 ination system if not excellent, appears to me 

 for the present to be indispensable, — yet in- 

 conveniences arise from both. There is the 

 danger, for the average student of the classics 

 at our schools and universities, of a kind of in- 



