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at Constantinople, nor any of the Staff spoke the language 
of the Country except one man :—he was recalled! * 
Classics are kept in the forefront by the “ dead hand ” of 
scholarships and foundations. The latest results of the 
Cambridge Big Group Scholarships—the results which show 
the name of the recipient, the subject and value of the scholar- 
ship—are as follows :—“‘ 48 scholarships were given for classics 
to the annual value of £2,380, and 39 scholarships were given 
for science to the annual value of £1,930.” If history and 
mathematics are included, the figures are: Classics and History, 
60 Scholarships; Science and Mathematics, 62 Scholarships (C). 
Another writer has analysed the apportionment of all 
scholarships and exhibitions at the Merchant Taylors’ School, 
which he took as a type of public school, and he found the (C) 
total amounts offered as follows :— 
Classics, including Hebrew ............... £7,072 
Science, including Medicine ............... £1,983 
Other subjects os... .cecss- a. eee £4,973 
“In a recent year, according to Dr. Shipley and Mr. 
Roberts, in one of the greatest public schools, excellently 
equipped for scientific studies, less than 2 per cent. of the 
boys in the higher forms were giving special attention to 
science” (C). ‘‘ At certain Civil Service examinations just before 
the War began there were 206 candidates for 78 appomtments. 
Of those who were successful only 4 took science subjects 
without mathematics or classics, and 17 mathematics and 
science, 45 in Greek and Latin, and the remainder literary 
subjects, with or without mathematics” (B). 
‘“‘Inmy opinion, ’ says Professor Strong, Emeritus Professor 
of Latin at the Liverpool University, “the masters in our 
Schools should insist that science and modern languages should 
be regarded as equally important with classical teaching, and 
rewards for proficiency gained in their study should be as great.’’} 
* Sir Edwin Pears, “‘ Forty years in = pp. 344, 345. 
Herbert Jenkins Ltd. 
+ Science Progress, April, 1916. 
