BACTERIOLOGY AND THE WAR. 3D 
“At Cambridge, but four colleges are presided over by 
men of scientific traimmg; at Oxford, not one. Of the 
thirty-five largest and best known public schools thirty-four have 
classical men as head masters. The examinations for entrance 
into Oxford and Cambridge, and for appointments into the 
Civil Service and the Army, are among the greatest determining 
factors in settling the kind of education given at our public 
schools. Natural science has been introduced as an optional 
subject for the Civil Service examinations, but matters are 
so arranged that only one-fourth of the candidates offer 
themselves for examination in science. It does not pay them 
to do so; for in Latin and Greek alone (including ancient 
history) they can obtain 3,200 marks, while for science the 
maximum is 2,400, and to obtain this total a candidate must 
take four distinct branches of science. For entrance into 
Woolwich, science has, within the last few years, been made 
compulsory, but for Sandhurst it still remains optional. This 
College 1s probably the only nulitary institution in Europe where 
science 1s not included in the curriculum ”’ (A) (italics mine).* 
Sir Harry Johnson, the great explorer, pomts out that 
_ the Indian Civil Service examination excludes Oriental History, 
Oriental Zoology, Oriental Botany, Ethnology and Hygiene. 
The curriculum at the Foreign Office includes Ancient Greek 
and Latin, and Ancient Greek History, but does not include, 
as essential or alternatives, Russian, Turkish, Persian, Yugo- 
slav and Modern Greek. Arabic, however, is admitted, but it 
is not Modern Arabic but the Arabic of the “ Arabian Nights”’ ! 
Ancient Greek receives 1,200 marks, while Geography—a 
subject of no importance to an Empire “ where the sun never 
sets ’’—receives 600 marks. How much of the Turkish muddle 
and the Balkan muddle is due to our idiotic and unscientific 
educational methods. Neither the late British Ambassador 
*In the revised curriculum of Officers training for the present War, 
Latin and Greek, though now optional, are baited with 2,000 marks each, 
Geography receives 600 (Sir Harry Johnson, Nineteenth Century, July, 1916). 
