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touched, and we should be ready to sacri- 

 fice a holocaust of undergraduates every 

 year to produce in each generation a scholar 

 of the type of, say, Ingram By water. 'Tis 

 Nature's method — does it not cost some 

 thousands of eggs and fry to produce one 

 salmon ? 



But the average man, not of scholar 

 timber, may bring one railing accusation 

 against his school and college. Apart from 

 mental discipline, the value of the ancient 

 languages is to give a key to their litera- 

 tures. Yet we make boys and young men 

 spend ten or more years on the study of 

 Greek and Latin, at the end of which time 

 the beauties of the languages are still hidden 

 because of the pernicious method in which 

 they are taught. It passes my understand- 

 ing how the more excellent way of Mon- 

 taigne, of Milton, and of Locke should have 

 been neglected until recently. Make the lan- 

 guage an instrument to play with and toplay 



