Word: classicists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussion of classics has again been revived. Canon Farrar has for the first time in this country expressed his convictions as to the position of the ancient languages in modern education. The words of such a pronounced classicist deserve the closest consideration. While the great devine does not take such decided ground as his celebrated countryman, chief Justice Coleridge, he still declares himself in favor of the continuance of the study of Greek and Latin as a component part of a college course. He said in a lecture before the students of Johns Hopkins University: "We are the children, after...
...Greek question at present going on. It is doubtful if a man would prove either a better or a worse commander of troops upon a modern battle-field, simply because he happened to have read in Thucydides a description of the fighting around Syracuse. Wellington was a classicist; Grant...