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Excerpt from Report of the President of Bowdoin College for the Academic Year 1895-96: To Which Are Appended the Reports of the Librarian and the Special Committee on the Library Let these men look forward with absolute certainty to reading a considerable consecutive passage to a tutor, who will insist on a thorough appreciation of the force of each Greek or Latin form and phrase, and its idiomatic and elegant equivalent in English, in a hand - to-hand encounter, where no adventitious aids, whether in print or in pencil, or even hastily transcribed upon the tablets of a mere unintelligent memory, can be made to serve, and the study of Greek and Latin, from being the idle farce it is at present, will become the highly disciplinary and intensely profitable exercise it ought to be. From this time forward Greek and Latin will have to stand upon their merits in the College curriculum. Poten tially the most valuable, they are actually, when required of large classes, the least valuable courses taught in colleges to - day. What is true of the classics is in less degree true of modern languages, philosophy, history, and economics. It is a common complaint of professors in professional schools and universities that the German which college graduates have acquired is of little or no use to them for practical work with German sources and authorities. A man of long experience as a professor in a theological school remarked to me the other day that there are only two colleges in New England whose graduates get sufficient grasp of the problems of philosophy to be of any use to them as a foundation for theology. I have heard frequent complaints from professors of economics and sociology and political science that it was impossible to assume that students who come fresh from courses in history know enough about it to furnish a solid basis for economic or political science instruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.