Led by Gilbert Murray, regius professor of Greek, a liberal minority at Oxford had since early in the century pressed for abolition of Greek as a requirement of admission to Oxford. By vote of the University convocation, 'compulsory Greek' was abolished in 1920, except in certain subjects. In the words of one historian, this development 'marked the end of the fifty-year process in which Classics was marginalized in English culture': Christopher Stray, Classics transformed (1998), 269.

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• 26 May 1917