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 not merely the look of the word and the phrase and the sentence on paper, but still more, the shape of them to the ear.

From the point of view of the University a reform in school procedure, both on the literary and on the grammatical side, would confer great and lasting benefits. There must be many University teachers who, like the present writer, feel dissatisfied with the scrappy and haphazard knowledge of the classics commonly presented by students reading for Pass degrees. But the foundations must be laid during the long school course, as the developed flower must be present in the germ. By not hurrying over the initial stages, and by a wise guidance of the later steps, the consummation of a worthy classical culture may be reached in the end.

Christmas, 1900.