Item 38 - Letter from H. W. Moss to — Marshall

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Regrets that he cannot help Marshall, and states that if he came up [to Cambridge] at all he would vote against parts I and IV, 'against the former as [he] would against any scheme which proposed to add a feather's weight to the excessive burdens now laid upon candidates for classical honours', and against the former principally because he thinks that it would be in effect 'nothing more than a superfluous anticipation of the mathematical and classical triposes', and would attract none or next to none 'of the "poll" men.' Claims to like part III, and sympathise with its principle, but wishes that some security could have been provided therein 'for the thoroughness of the examination by a definition of the subjects and that no advantage had been given to "students who offer themselves for examination in Latin only" over those who wish to be examined in Greek only.'