Sir: What an admirable letter from the Regius Professor of
Greek at Oxford, on Hugh Trevor-Roper's presidential address to the Joint Association of Classical teachers — and how wellbalanced.
It brought to mind the saying, "To Christ we owe compassion — to the Greeks everything else." (I think it was the Head of Marlborough College I last heard quoting this.) But also, let me say, now Walter Taplin so concisely, but adequately. expressed my own feelings about your printing this address — and I suspect also the feelings of many other readers.
How refreshing, when the mass media bombards our senses so much. This in turn reminded me of Senecas references to Ulysses's antidote for his ship's company against the Sirens -he plugged their ears with beeswax.
Unnecessary, when you get such good sounds ' from The Spectator.
J. E. Jackson
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