Show President Andrews is net a very guod friend of tfte classics for in his latest article in the Cosmopolitan Magazine he says that large parts of classIcal erature reek with filth and but few of the classical authors can be read by young persons without the USE of expurgated ex-purgated editions that < much of Virgil and Horace that is used in classrooms editors and teachers violently misinterpret misin-terpret to make it decent that ideas of the social and class relationsraps < in classical times were vicious in the extreme ex-treme and that ansient patriotism itself it-self was a sentiment which no one could now commend ViYthout large qualifications qualifica-tions and not a single one of the anolaat moral teachers got more than a glimpse of the thought which forms the center of modern ethics The charge brought against the classics clas-sics proper applies very largely to what is accepted by the world as classics such as > the works of Rabelais the De cameron and the Heptam ron These three books may be set down as made up largely of filth But in many great weeks it is easy to find cbjeufConale passages The value of the study of the classics doesnt depend on the expurgated ex-purgated persons by any means Ther chief value is in the discipline < hey af ford the mind while at time same time cnrichCTisr it with some of tam noblssi thoughts and conceptions of mankind |