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have fertilized science in every department. 

 The pulse of every student should beat 

 faster as he reads the story of Archimedes, 

 of Hero, of Aristarchus, names not even 

 mentioned in the "Greats" papers in the 

 past decade. Yet the methods of these men 

 exorcised vagaries and superstitions from 

 the human mind and pointed to a clear 

 knowledge of the laws of nature. It is sur- 

 prising that some wag among the examin- 

 ers has never relieved the grave monotony 

 of the papers by such peripatetic questions 

 as "How long a gnat lives," "To how 

 many fathoms' depth the sunlight pene- 

 trates the sea," and "What an oyster's 

 soul is like" — questions which indicate 

 whence the modern Lucian got his inspira- 

 tion to chaff so successfully Boyle and the 

 professors of Gresham College. 



May I dwell upon two instances of shock- 

 ing neglect? It really is amusing in Oxford 

 to assert neglect of ' ' the measurer of all Art 



