SIR. — You imply in your article 'Classical Education' that historians and
economists, as well as scientists, are crammed for 0 level. But in all public schools and first-class grammar schools the vast majority of A-stream non-scientists will have done a four- year course in Latin before sitting 0 level. This is certainly not cramming. Whether it is worth while to study any language other than English only as far as this level is another matter.
I agree with you that more English should be taught, but not entirely with your strictures on the Classical Faculty. One immediate objection to the substitution of English for Latin as a compulsory subject for entrance is the much greater difficulty of objective marking. If this could be surmounted you argument would be much stronger than it is at present.—Yours faithfully, Little Buckhold, St. Andrews School, near Pangbourne, Berks
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