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PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK. 6^ 27th, 1896, from Athens: "Dear Doctor: — The endless debates on the pronunciation of Greek in the French schools are closed, and the historical truth has at last triumphed. The old prejudices have all vanished. We are victorious. Other people will follow the lead of France." In Princeton University there is an earnest advo- cate of the true pronunciation of the Greek as a living language. Besides Princeton, we have a number of other colleges in this coun- try in which Greek is taught as a living lan- guage with its true pronunciation: namely, MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minn. ; Western University, Wooster, Ohio; the University of Colorado, Boulder, Col. ; Emory College, Ox- ford, Ga. ; Colby University, Waterville, Me. ; Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. The living Greek is a language remarkable in every respect. There is nothing wanting to constitute it the most beautiful language of Europe. It is, without the shadow of a doubt, the most perfect. Greece has excellent writers at the present time, although it is only three- quarters of a century since she became again a free and independent nation. There exists a large number of poets since the national resur-