y affected candidates for honours
or for medical degrees) was rejected by 51 votes to 48.

All the other proposals and votes relating to Greek in the Previous
Examination in 1870-1873, 1878-1880, and 1891-1892 are set forth in the
_Cambridge University Reporter_ for November 11, 1904, pp. 202-205. In
November 1903 a syndicate was appointed to consider the studies and
examinations of the university, their report of November 1904 on the
Previous Examination was fully discussed, and the speeches published in
the _Reporter_ fcr December 17, 1904. In the course of the discussion
Sir Richard Jebb drew attention to the statistics collected by the
master of Emmanuel, Mr W. Chawner, showing that, out of 86 head masters
belonging to the Head Masters' Conference whose replies had been
published, "about 56 held the opinion that the exemption from Greek for
all candidates for a degree would endanger or altogether extinguish the
study of Greek in the vast majority of schools, while about 21 head
masters held a different opinion." On the 3rd of March 1905 a proposal
for accepting either French or German as an alternative for either Latin
or Greek in the Previous Examination was rejected by 1559 to 1052 votes,
and on the 26th of May 1906 proposals distinguishing between students in
letters and students in science, and (_inter alia_) _requiring_ the
latter to take either French or German for either Latin or Greek in the
Previous Examination, were rejected by 746 to 241.

Meanwhile, at Oxford a proposal practically making Greek optional with
all undergraduates was rejected, in November 1902, by 189 votes to 166;
a preliminary proposal permitting students of mathematics or natural
science to offer one or more modern languages in lieu of Greek was
passed by 164 to 162 in February 1904, but on the 29th of November the
draft of a statute to this effect was thrown out by 200 to 164. In the
course of the controversy three presidents of the Royal Society, Lord
Kelvin, Lord Lister and Sir W. Huggins, expressed the opinion that the
proposed exemption was not beneficial to science students.

The Classical Association.

Incidentally, the question of "compulsory Greek" has stimulated a desire
for greater efficiency in classical teaching. In December 1903, a year
before the most important of the public discussions at Cambridge, the
Classical Association was founded in London. The aim of that association
is "to promote the development, and main