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...inaugural dinner of the Bristol University College Club, a few weeks ago, Sir John Lubbock made a most interesting speech on the subject of a higher education. He claimed that the sciences and modern languages did not receive their full share of attention as statistics showed. In the course of his remarks he expressed the following views on the warfare now going on between the classics and the sciences: Five-and-twenty years ago, when the hours of study were fewer and the examinations less numerous, a boy had far greater opportunity of following up any special task than...
...undervalue and would not neglect the classics. All he asked was that science and modern languages should have their fair share of time and attention, or, as has been well observed at their opening meeting, there was one side of our nature which science was the only means of cultivating. Our present system of secondary education demanded, it seemed to him, the careful and serious attention of parents, and, if not watched, would constitute a real danger for the country. He observed that Balliol College and New College, to whose co-operation they were so greatly indebted, had very wisely...
...same date, Jan. 7th. The time necessary for preparation for the final examinations is not only thus seriously encroached upon, but those men who have both courses must devote a portion of the already pitiably short Christmas recess to preparation for this needless aggravation-the strongest modern argument against conservation of energy-where an immense amount of labor is expended with no adequate results-the hour examination. It is due to the respective professors to state that they are both postponed examinations. Can they not be indefinitely postponed...
...published "A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners," which reached a third edition in 1847, and in 1862 had attained a sale of 40,000 copies. Reviewers spoke very highly of it. While writing English that was compact and pure to a surprising degree, the author, being a modern Greek, had a living connection with the ancient language which gave a certainly and ease to his treatment and explanation of grammatical structure. C. C. Felton said of it in the North American Review, that he thoroughly commended it, and that it was likely to bring about...
...Later and Byzantine Greek' in 1860. Alibone says of his contribution in this kind of learning, that "it was a peculiar boon to scholars and must occupy a place with the glossaries of Ducange and Charpentier." In 1860 he received the appointment to the professorship of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek which he held until his death. He again visited Greece in 1860. In 1870 he got out a subscription edition of his 'Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods.' It is a work of authority still in use, and many inquiries for it in recent years have been...