Compulsory Greek at Cambridge

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MY own experiences are somewhat different from those of your correspondents, but the result is the same. I commenced Greek when about thirteen; I passed the London matriculation, the entrance examination at Trinity, and the Little-go without any difficulty; and I have read the three synoptic gospels in the original, several Greek plays, and a certain amount of Homer, Xenophon, and Thucydides. Now, if all the knowledge I thus acquired had been of any practical value to me in after life, I should, as a matter of ordinary common sense and worldly wisdom, have kept it up; but, finding Greek absolutely useless, my acquaintance with the language has so completely faded away that I can scarcely make out the sense of a Greek quotation in a historical or theological work.