Excerpt from Efficiency in Education, 1902: Inaugural Address Delivered at the First Annual Meeting of the Scottish

MY first duty and pleasure is to congratulate you on the successful formation of the Scottish Classical Association, so happily consummated to-day my second is to express to you my most warm thanks for the honour you have done me in electing me as your first President. This honour, I am well aware, I owe rather to the somewhat dubious merit of seniority, as the oldest Classical Professor - indeed the senior Professor of any kind - in Scotland, rather than to any special merit of my own, but even so I accept the honour with much gratitude. I feel proud that you, the men who throughout Scotland are carrying out in the 20th century those high traditions of education upon which the intellectual life of Scotland has been based for more than 300 years, should deem me worthy to preside over this Association, and thus give me a right to work along with you in a cause which during all my professional life I have had more at heart than any other - that of the higher education of our country.

And what, gentlemen, are the objects of our Association? I am glad to say that among them is not included that of furthering, in any way, the personal or professional interests of its members. At the very outset, I received the strongest representations from teachers of the Classics.

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