GREEK FOR GIRLS
Sta,—As one who has earned her living, kept house, and had children since leaving Roedean, may I say how much I welcomed Miss Archibald's article on the value of Greek for girls? The trend towards more and more " practical subjects " in girls' schools is a pity. Force of circumstances will make us study these after leaving school, but the inclination, the opportunity, and above all the application for studying the classics are gone. A woman's expecta- tion of life is around seventy years—may she not be allowed just a few of those seventy in which to learn for the sake of learning and not towards some monetary of matrimonial goal?
Not being particularly "good at" Latin, there was never any question that I should join the selected Greek goddesses. I still cling to my Latin dictionary and Kennedy's Primer, absurdly hoping that some day there will be the time and the solitude to pick up the threads so prodigally abandoned after School Certificate in favour of housewifery—but I know that I shall never now learn Greek.— Yours faithfully, M. V. ALISON ADBURGHMA.
Little Heath Corner, Berkhamsted.
[We regret the necessity of holding over a large number of ktters owing to increasing pressure on space.—En., The Spectator.]
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