Show DEFENDS CLASSICS IN LEAGUE SESSION Coolidge Gives Address on Educational Su Subject PHILADELPHIA July 7 Science Science commerce and social culture could n not t progress if It our educational system tem dropped dropp the classics of ot ancient civilization civili from its curriculum Vice Pres Pre President President ident Calvin Coolidge today told the American Classical lea league lii in session at Ot atthe atthe the University of Pennsylvania Education Is 18 primarily a incan means of ot establishing Id ideals als the tho vice Ice president said Its Us first duty being the formation I of ot character which Is the thc result oo of ot heredity and training It It is is tho an ancient ancient nn- nn classics ho declared that inspire the tho ideals toward which all men and nations arc are striving today Tho most pressing requirement nt of ot the present hour the speaker asserted assert assert- ed ill In not not- not how how are wo wolo to solve e our I econ economic problems but Where are re we to find the sustaining influences for forthe forthe forthe the rt realities of or life Ute How are arc wo we to lo Justify the tho existing tor form of government In our republic On what can enn we rely re rely rely re- re ly tor fora a continuation of that of-that that Her l service o of sacrifice which has made modern civilization possible 7 Tho program program of the present era gives no new new answers to these problems lems There are no examples of heroism which o outrival Leonidas at nt Thermopylae or Horatius at atthe the bridge The literature of or Greece and Rome Is 18 from beginning to end an inspiring plea pica for patriotism Society is tho the product of all nil which has haa gone before The principles and ideals on which we must be depend not only for tor a a. continuance of culture but I believe for a continuance I of or the development of of science Its itself lf como come to us from the tho classics Unless Americans shall continue to live in something moro more more than the present present pres pres- ent t to be moved by something more more than material gains they will go down lown as other peoples have g gone nc down b before be- be foro fore some possessed of a n gre greater ler moral mora f force r c |