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the wholly admirable activities of their teach- 

 ers. We have our Classical Review and 

 Classical Quarterly; we have our Classical As- 

 sociations; but we are in danger of dragging 

 the average man too uncomfortably at our 

 chariot-wheels. If we want to protect our- 

 selves against the people who make a great 

 outcry about schoolboys giving too much 

 time to the classics, — time which should be 

 wholly devoted, they say, to useful subjects, — 

 I should suggest very humbly that teachers of 

 the higher classes in schools forget for the 

 moment the demand of the future palaeogra- 

 pher and archaeologist. He will look after 

 himself in due course. They should really 

 shorten the hours of instruction in Latin and 

 Greek, and content themselves with a thor- 

 ough grounding in the elements of both lan- 

 guages, as well as, of course, in the broad lines 

 of ancient history; and a thorough grounding 

 in the languages I take to include practice in 

 Latin and Greek composition, which is to my 

 mind, for most boys, a much pleasanter, more 

 stimulating, and more educative exercise than 

 hearing about the theories of the learned. 



