issitudes of fortune, and their experiences, would of
itself be a valuable possession and equipment for life.
3. A knowledge of the ideas of the ancient Greeks and Romans, revealed
and developed in their literature, and tested in the realities of
their life. Many of these ideas are of the utmost value today, and are
in danger of being overlooked and forgotten in this materialistic age
of ours, unless they are constantly recalled to our minds by such
studies.
4. A knowledge of the actual experiences of the ancients, as
individuals and as nations, their experiments in democracy and other
forms of government, in imperialism, arbitration, and the like, their
solutions of the moral, social, and economic problems which were as
prominent in their world as in ours.
To realize these aims old methods should be revised and improved, new
methods developed. For there can hardly be a study more valuable and
practical than this.
WILLIAM K. PRENTICE
_Princeton University_
Footnotes:
[61] For example, at the University of Kansas.
[62] Leland Stanford, Michigan, Princeton.
[63] California, North Dakota, Harvard, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas,
Leland Stanford, Michigan, Oberlin, Otterbein, Pennsylvania, Vermont,
Wisconsin, Yale, etc. Some of these courses are offered only to
graduate students, and some are given by the Departments of
Pedagogics.
[64] In New Testament or Patristic Greek at Austin, Bucknell,
California, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Lafayette, Michigan, Millsaps,
Trinity, Wesleyan. In Patristic Latin, Bucknell and elsewhere.
[65] Brown, Cornell, Leland Stanford.
[_N. B._ These lists are by no means complete.]
[66] History of Greek Tragedy. Lectures with reading and study of the
plays of AEschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Requires no knowledge of
the Greek language.
[67] E.g., Columbia, Lafayette.
[68] California, Washington University.
[69] Colorado, Idaho, Syracuse, Vermont, Washington University,
Wesleyan, Wisconsin.
[70] It should be noted that at Brown the titles of the classical
departments are "The Department of Greek Literature and History" and
"The Department of Roman Literature and History."
[71] At Cornell and Oberlin, for example.
[72] See especially Clarence P. Bill. "The Business of a College Greek
Department," _Classical Journal_, IX (1913-14), pp. 111-121.
[73] See the article by Mr. Theodosius S. Tyng in _Classical We
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