CORNELL'S ATTITUDE ON THE GREEK QUESTION,

President White in his address to the New York alumni spoke very favorably of the recent changes. He said: I am happy to say that the courses in the ancient classical languages are steadily flourishing. Our policy of confining studies in Greek to those who really want them and will give themselves thoroughly to them, is in every way successful. The day when one man who really loved Greek was held back by five who hated it, when the ten really earnest Greek scholars in a class could get on no farther or faster than they could drag fifty others who cared nothing about it, is gone by. The results of our system you saw when Frayer and Schwerdtfeger and Miss Thomas carried off the high-test prizes for Greek at the various inter-collegiate contests. In Modern Literature, too, our courses have been bettered and extended. With two full professors and an instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor in that department more time for instruction in Italian and Spanish, we are better equipped than ever. Let me say here that I rejoice at this especially. Apart, of course, from the deepening of religious and moral feelings, I know of nothing more to be desired for our country than a broader and deeper cultivation of the literature and science of the world at large. We are developing too much in obedience to a single element of progress-to what I have in another place called "mercantilism" I see nothing but a more devoted cultivation of art, science, and literature which can modify this. And, so far as literature is concerned, while I have nothing to say against those who are devoted to ancient literature, we certainly need for the great majority the study of literature, rich, accessible, directly bearing on modern life. In my judgment. the great German literature best suits this need.