THE PASSING OF THE CLASSICS.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR!"1
Sta,—In your issue of July 31st Mr. G. Boileau Reid, after lamenting the decay of Greek at Harrow, expresses the hope that Eton and Winchester may still support the old tradition, adding " and there may be some curious old-faihioned feeling at some other schools." May I therefore direct his attention
to an article on Cheltenham College in the Times of August 5th (p. 5), where he will be as pleased as I was to read that " the war has not killed the study of the classics, nor have recent decisions on the question of Greek proved fatal to its retention. Greek, indeed, looks like making a recovery, and it has been found necessary to revive a ` set' which lapsed some years ago for lack of patronage."—I am, Sir, &c., CECIL W. C. HALLETT Constitutional Club. (Old Cheltonian, 1884-87).
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