UNIVERSITY SERIES LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TURE VOLUME II NUMBER 2 The Classics and Our Twentieth- Address as President of the American Philological Association By HENRY RUSHTON FAIRCLOUGH Professor of Classical Literature PUBLISHED FOR THE UNIVERSITY BY STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS TO ALL MY CLASSICAL Students, past and present, at STANFORD AND ELSEWHERE, TO WHOM I RECOMMEND, BECAUSE OF THE PLEASURE IT WILL YIELD, CULTIVATION OF THE HABIT OF READING MODERN POETRY. LET THEM bear IN MIND WHAT QUINTILIAN HAS SAID: “NULLA MANSIT ARS QUALIS INVENTA EST, NEC INTRA INITIUM STETIT." PREFATORY NOTE This essay was prepared by the writer as the presidential address for the American Philological Association, and was delivered at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the evening of December 29, 1926. HENRY RUSHTON FAIRCLOUGH STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA July 1, 1927 |