LATIN AND SCIENCE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1551, 16 May 1916, Page 2

LATIN AND SCIENCE

IX eriticisiny the public attitude* towards the sedentilic and engineering expert, Fngineeriny asserts (hat there ‘‘is not a little reason for helieviny that the* country would derive yreat hene*fit from an Act makiny it ille*yal for any schoolboy under 1(1 years <d‘ aye* to devote* me ire than e me* Imur a we*e*k (ei Latin aval another hour to Gree*k. Those whose tastes lay in classics wemlel have 1 ample; time* in the two ye*ars between Ki anel IS to yet up lei (he* stanelard nece*ssary lor aspirants lei edassie-al honours a! a univemsily, anel the present enormeius waste eif time, in the* e*ase* eif the* vast majority e>f euir se-hoolheiys, weiulel he* avoieleei. In fae-1, our se'hools in the past have* faileel to jii’ovide a ye*ne*ral e*elncat ion, hut have* ele*veite*ef to the* attemqd tei e-em-vert every youth into a speedalist. Early spe*e*ialisa( iem is indefe*nsihle, and a much wieler basis for e-ulture* sheiulel he pi*oviele*d than our yi’ammarians are dispeised tei allow. Of course, this view will he misrepresente*el as an attempt tei elestreiy chissical e-ulture. Ineleeel, the vest eel inte*re*sts threatemed have already taken alarm anel preifess to line! a sullie-ient explanation eif Hun outrayes in the wiele spread eif scienlilie- knowh'elye* in Germany. 'Phis cemtention, however, iyneires the fact that the brutality of the German warrior has been notoriems for ages, and the memory of man ‘runneth not tei (he contrary.’ Froissart, in discussing the respective merits eif the national ehivalries of his day, notes this distinguishing e-haraeteristie of the* leutonie- knight, and Ihe cemtempeirary loiters eif a eenlury tig", recently republished, recall the brutality eif the Prussians in Belgium and in France after Waterloo."