And now the classics have received another blow. They are taken into account no longer in the annual competitive examinations for commissions in the English army. The innovation, however, has but little significance, one way or the other, in the discussions of the 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 was not.
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The Serenade to the Princeton Nine.
