20 MAY 1911, Page 3

The question of Compulsory Greek at Oxford came before Convocation

on Tuesday. The new Statute renders Greek an optional subject in responsions for candidates who afterwards take honours in Mathematics or Natural Science. It was supported by the Master of Balliol and the President of Magdalen, on the ground that the Statute offered the best compromise, and by Professor Gilbert Murray, who main- tained that it would further the interests of classical teaching. Ultimately the Preamble to the Statute was carried by 156 to 79. The decision is one with which we strongly sympathize.