Abstract
DR. ODLING, replying in the Times to Canon Liddon's letter, referred to in NATURE, vol. xx. p. 132, maintains that unless some little Greek is considered absolutely essential to a liberal education, there can be no ground for refusing a degree in arts to students who, though unacquainted with Greek, are familiar with such like studies as geometry, arithmetic, and astronomy, which equally with grammar, dialectics, and rhetoric, have been counted from time immemorial among the liberal arts. And assuming the compulsory modicum of Greek now brought up by mathematical and natural science students to be a non-essential element of their liberal education, as certified to by a degree in arts, how can a degree in arts be hereafter refused to advanced students of either of these subjects who, while still bringing up Latin, shall in future offer a considerable amount of German, together with some amount of both mathematics and natural science as a substitute for the present modicum of Greek?
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