THE GREEK PROFESSORSHIP AT OXFORD AND THE RECORD.
To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."
Sur, —The inclosed letter tells its own tale. I will therefore trouble you with but a few words of explanation.
The Record on the 21st published Lord Duncan's letter, and ungraciously enough, but still distinctly, retracted the statement that Professor Jowett took private pupils. The allegation was in- deed so completely disproved that the Record had no choice but to retract.
The Record has entirely declined to publish my letter of the 19th, even after receiving fair warning that were the letter not published in the Record I should print it elsewhere.
The Record still maintains that from some means or other Professor Jowett receives as Professor more than 401. a year.
The result of my whole correspondence with the Record, which has now lasted over a fortnight, must be summed up thus:— Whereas the Record made two assertions which it never knew to be true, and maintained them long after it must have known them to be untrue, I have at great expense of time and trouble com- pelled the Record to retract one of these false statements.
I greatly regret that in my last letter to the Record I accident- ally omitted to state the fact, well known to every Oxford man, that Professor Jowett is by no means the only Professor whose energy and zeal lead him to give instructions gratuitously to his friends and pupils during the long vacation.
The Record has already shown a disposition to take advantage of
Previous page
