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GREEK FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS. 125 
afterward prove to have no natural aptitude for Greek should spend a 
part of their time for two or three years upon a subject which, at the 
worst, would necessarily give them help in the use of their own tongue 
and in the understanding and devising of scientific nomenclature, and 
which would not be without value in forming habits of exact observation 
ind logical inference. 
Now I regard an injury done to the study of Greek as an injury 
inflicted upon the one side of education which our American public, 
sagerly engaged in commerce and industries, is most likely to disregard, 
and upon the one side of education of which, without knowing it, it is 
really most in need. There is no danger that the sciences will not be 
vigorously pursued in America, at least to the very considerable extent to 
which their practical applications make it profitable to pursue them. 
There is, on the other hand, a very natural danger, due to our youth as 
a nation, and to the immense opportunities which our undeveloped 
resources afford, that the pursuit of studies more remotely practical will 
se regarded as a waste of time. Yet the thing which we most need is, not 
greater opportunities to make wealth, but a higher regard for the things 
which Greek civilization represents, and which the study of Greek liter- 
ature and Greek life conveys. We need, in our triumphant Americanism, 
a good deal more of Hellenism. For a great many men, as I myself 
pelieve, the one thing that is best worth knowing well, alongside of our 
own literature, is Greek literature, and the one spirit best worth compre- 
hending intimately is the Greek spirit. 
My own conclusion, then, is that, among excellent examples set us 
by Harvard University, of whose service to American education I, as one 
of her sons, am justly and deeply proud, and among excellent examples 
set us by Johns Hopkins University, to whose guiding spirits American 
>ducation owes a great debt, the example of granting the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts without Greek is not to be reckoned. 
TELEGRAMS. 
{ would retain Greek as requisite to the Bachelor of Arts degree. 
C. A. Young, 
Professor of Astronomy in Princeton University. 
Cite me for Greek in A.B. degree. 
A. C. MERRIAM, 
Professor of Greek in Columbia College, New York City. 
Greek has too many and great educational values to be sacrificed. The degree of 
B.A., usually presupposing Greek, has a history, definite meaning, and commercial 
value that should not be needlessly disturbed. Other degrees, existing or easily made, 
should be given for curricula without Greek. 
Tracy Pick, 
Professor of Latin in Yale University.