DR. MCCOSH ON THE DEGREE OF A. B.

In a recent speech President McCosh of Princeton said: "We teach every branch of high learning taught in any college in America. We have to make some studies elective. The obligatory studies are the old branches which have stood the test of ages, which trained our forefathers, and are fitted to enlarge the mind and prepare young men for their life work. Among these we have now and mean to retain the classical tongues, especially Greek, as opening to us the grandest literature of the ancient world, and especially the language of the Greek Testament. On this subject we are unanimous. For myself I am very willing that colleges should introduce other and new degrees, such as Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Literature. But we wish to retain the old degrees with all their significance. It is not honest to change the meaning of those tittles. Let us have a degree which indicates that the possessor is a man of culture."