C. L. S. C. REQUIRED BOOKS FOR 1892-93. GRECIAN HISTORY. J. R. Joy, CALLIAS, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. A. J. Church, THE UNITED States and ForEIGN POWERS. W. E. Curtis, $1.00 1.00 1.00 .50 1.00 .50 CLASSIC GREEK COURSE IN ENGLISH. I. GREEK LITERATURE. Of all that the Greeks did in the world, nothing remains to us recognizably in the form given it by their cunning brain and hand, save perhaps a few coins, a few noble architectural ruins, a few inimitable, though mutilated, antique pieces of sculpture, and, last and chief, some masterpieces of literary composition. Good literature is, perhaps, on the whole, the most enduring of all the products of human activity. Dead, we call the languages of Greece and Rome, and it is the fashion now to ridicule the idea of devoting so much time in our schools and colleges to the study of dead Greek and Latin. The "new education," so called, lauds the study of science above the study of the ancient classics—the study of nature, that is to say, above the study of man. But is not man at least a part of nature? And is not language the noblest outward attribute of man? Science includes, for instance, what used to be called natural history. The devotees of this branch of scientific inquiry think it a not unworthy employment of time to spend years, or perhaps a life, in observing and discussing the habits of some single species of the lower animals. It might very well happen that an ichthyologist would reckon it a good account to render of himself if, as the result of investigations covering years of his life, he is able to present to the world at last an approximately exhaustive enumeration, description, classification of C. L. S. C. REQUIRED BOOKS FOR 1892-93. GRECIAN HISTORY. J. R. Joy, CALLIAS, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. A. J. Church, THE UNITED States and FOREIGN POWERS. W. E. Curtis, $1.00 1.00 1.00 .50 1.00 .50 CLASSIC GREEK COURSE IN ENGLISH. I. GREEK LITERATURE. Of all that the Greeks did in the world, nothing remains to us recognizably in the form given it by their cunning brain and hand, save perhaps a few coins, a few noble architectural ruins, a few inimitable, though mutilated, antique pieces of sculpture, and, last and chief, some masterpieces of literary composition. Good literature is, perhaps, on the whole, the most enduring of all the products of human activity. Dead, we call the languages of Greece and Rome, and it is the fashion now to ridicule the idea of devoting so much time in our schools and colleges to the study of dead Greek and Latin. The "new education," so called, lauds the study of science above the study of the ancient classics-the study of nature, that is to say, above the study of man. But is not man at least a part of nature? And is not language the noblest outward attribute of man? Science includes, for instance, what used to be called natural history. The devotees of this branch of scientific inquiry think it a not unworthy employment of time to spend years, or perhaps a life, in observing and discussing the habits of some single species of the lower animals. It might very well happen that an ichthyologist would reckon it a good account to render of himself if, as the result of investigations covering years of his life, he is able to present to the world at last an approximately exhaustive enumeration, description, classification of |