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Show have us believe. Sparta had ner state superintendent, who, if distant report is to be trusted, was an educational despot. But, while he wielded his walking walk-ing stick freely during official visits, and encouraged his subordinates to ply the rod on all occasions, he was as diligent a promoter of music as is any humane and progressive educator of our era. As a result, the little Lacedaemonians Lace-daemonians sang blithely, no matter what torment was 'going on under their tunics. And all over Greece, in those dim days, were schools, ranging f ro'm infant grades instructed .under Arcadian hedges to the university-extension schemes harbored in buildings uniquely termed "places of leisure.' The infants were drilled in their alpha-beta alpha-beta -gammas; the older boys were taught poetry and gymnastics, with , something of arithmetic, geometry and drawing; and adults spent their leisure with rhetoriticians and sophists, paying pay-ing handsomely for the privilege. But music was a sine qua non of Grecian life, in school and in sport, in battle and in burial. The epic and elegiac chantings'at festivals, the calm speculations specula-tions of Pythagoras as to the music of the spheres, the choral outburst of "the great fifth century," the material odes of Tyrtaeus and Tindar, all show the national love for melody of voice ( as weir as for high and harmonious thought. An old-time Greek set down amid the strident, metallic voices of our occidental world would feel that the Furies had seized either upon him or the continent he was visiting. . SINGING AMONG THE GREEKS. ' The Ancient Greeks Sana- Blithely and Were Carefully Instructed. 1 Our present system of public Instruction Instruc-tion is not so modern as some would |