Professor Murray admitted that as a nation we neglected modern
languages, partly, however, because English is spoken all the world over and because our great literature is almost inexhaustible. He touched on the true cause of much ignorance when he said that we had not worked• hard enough. " Our standards of comfort, pleasure, and expenditure—at any rate among the richer classes—were prob- ably the highest known in the history of the world." We -have, in other words, gone too far in reversing the proverb. that" All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Profeasor Murray said that in the elementary schools we needed smaller classes and "teachers with real culture behind them." Those few word's, though so easy to say, and so admirable in spirit, imply, of course, a veritable revolution in our school system.
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