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...interest to students in American colleges to know that exertions are now being made in England at the universities to place the modern languages on an equal footing with Latin and Greek...
...Professors residing in Engiand. M. Waddington, the French Ambassador, presided. In his address, M. Waddington said that last year the society had met at Oxford by invitation of that university. He hoped the language which the society represented would soon be placed on a par with the classics. The modern school had not yet taken the position it deserved, and Moliere and Goethe should be studied by the side of Euripides and Sophocles...
...Taylor, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, followed him. "A crisis in the history of English education is once more upon us," he said, "in that classicism education is once more attacked, and the affirmation strongly made that the interests of practical life must no longer be neglected in our educational system. Englishmen must be prepared at school to compete in commerce and in business with their foreign rivals, and for this purpose they will have to renounce in part that training in Latin and Greek which former generations of Englishmen have received. The assertion is made more peremptorily, more...
...position of the classicists is untenable when they deny the possibility of substituting in education modern languages for the ancient. The modern literatures are literatures. It is useless to claim the title of humanities exclusively for the classics. Men are not asked to give up culture for business, but for the sake of business. They are asked to impart culture by a new method, and the complaint is that this new method is of the second rate, while the first method is of the first rate...
...crisis from this day will strongly turn at the universities in favor of the equality of modern languages, and may possibly affect American colleges as well...