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Classical Studies.

Much has been written within the last few decades for and against the value of the study of the classical languages and literature. Some writers, especially fanatical advocates of ‘‘modern’’ culture, see in the humanistic school only a gloomy ruin of the time of the renaissance, which stands in the midst of the grand structures of modern culture, half monastery, half pagan temple. Latin and Greek philologists have built their nests in its dilapidated walls, like owls that shun the bright light of day, and in the dusk they flutter about to frighten and torment poor children with their cries of monstrous Latin and Greek forms. Others, the one-sided ad-