Excerpt from Proceedings, January 1917, Vol. 14: With Rules and List of Members The Association met in the Great Hall of the University at 11 a.m., and the Presidential Address was delivered by the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce: The Worth of Ancient Literature for the Modern World. The chief aims Of our Association are two. One is practical. It is to defend and promote the study of the ancient classics by Vindicating for them their due place in the course of instruction both in schools and in universities. The other aim is to exchange ideas among ourselves, by speech and through print, about classical antiquity, its deeds and its thoughts, and the books - books Of imperishable splendour - in which those deeds and thoughts stand recorded, SO that we may aid one another in their study. This latter aim is the more pleasurable, and to it alone I would willingly devote the Opportunity afforded me Of addressing you today. But the former aim has at this moment a definite prae tical importance which requires me to submit to you some remarks bearing upon it, in View Of the action which the Association may be called on to take; and with these remarks I will begin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.