Excerpt from Greek Lands and the Greek People: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford, November 11 1910
The first holder of this Wykeham Chair begins his tenure under fair auspices. The great College, to which I owe my earliest allegiance here, has already given to the world historians of note, and to Oxford recently a Camden and a Chichele Professor. It offers now to the University, with generous goodwill, a new Chair of Ancient History, dedicated to the special study of Greece and Greek lands; and it sets before the occupants of that Chair, for ever, the example of a great innovator in English education, a great benefactor to learning in Oxford. Hoc fecit Wykeham.
To respond, by offer of service, to Wykehamical foresight and munificence is the least return which any student can make, who owes as much as I do to both his Colleges. To have experienced, besides, at Magdalen, at Christ Church, and in the University of Liverpool the charm, the dignity, and the stimulus of other learned Societies, and the friendship of colleagues in more than one aspect of research and teaching, was a rare sequence of privileges, which I have valued and enjoyed to the extent of my ability. And now to come back home, to Oxford, and to New College, crowns all; to be chosen to inaugurate the new Chair is the highest honour, the completest recognition, which College and University could bestow; the strongest spur to more strenuous service.
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