"In German schools not only are classics taught more systematically and more thoroughly than in all but a few of our own, but they are learned by a greater proportion of the population; and, moreover, the hours devoted to natural science in those schools in which it is taught are fewer than in our public schools.... Since 1903 the number of German boys receiving a classical education has steadily increased. In 1904 there were 196,175 pupils in schools (_Gymnasien_ and _Realgymnasien_) where Latin is compulsory, of whom 153,680 belonged to the classical schools (_Gymnasien_), and therefore learned Greek as well (W. Lexis, _Unterrichtswesen im Deutschen Reich_, ii. 218); in 1911, as Mr. R. W. Livingstone has shown (_The Times Educational Supplement_, April 4, p. 49, col. 2), the corresponding figures were 240,000 and 170,000; and in 1908, 'out of a total of 31,622 students entering 18 out of 21 German universities (Munich, Erlangen, and Wurzburg not reporting), ... only 7-1/2 per cent entered without Latin or Greek' (Professor Francis W. Kelsey, _Latin and Greek in American Education_, 1911, p. 43). "Moege das Studium der griechischen und roemischen Literatur immerfort die Basis der hoeheren Bildung bleiben." So wrote the greatest of the Germans; and the countrymen of Goethe, whose genius was scientific as well as poetical, have not forgotten his words. On the other hand, in the modern schools (_Realgymnasien_ and _Oberrealschulen_) only a small fraction of the time-table--from two hours a week (out of twenty-five) to six (out of thirty-one)--is devoted to natural science. To anyone who has read Matthew Arnold's _Higher Schools and Universities in Germany_, or Dr. M. E. Sadler's _The Realschulen in Berlin_, or who is acquainted with the opinions expressed by Helmholtz, A. W. Hofmann, Bauer, and other 'eminent scientific professors,' it will not appear paradoxical that the object of thus restricting the hours devoted to the teaching of natural science in schools is to promote the scientific efficiency of the German nation. It was with this object that by the regulations published in 1901 the time devoted to Latin in the _Realgymnasien_ was increased. And those who do not learn natural science learn what for the nation is equally important--the value of scientific method."] [Footnote 75: The Daily News, October 20, 1915:-- "A pathetic story is told in the _Vorwaerts_ by Herr Adolf Koester (who acts as war correspondent for the German Socialist Press) in connection with the recent fighting at Hooge. A German soldier told him of a young Scotsman whom he had killed with a hand-grenade in whose pocket he had found a little pocket-book:--