The old methods of instruction were superseded by fresh grammars composed by Erasmus and other scholars for its use.

Lilly, an Oxford student who had studied Greek in the East, was placed at its head.
The injunctions of the founder aimed at the union of rational religion with sound learning, at the exclusion of the scholastic logic, and at the steady diffusion of the two classical literatures.

The more bigoted of the clergy were quick to take alarm.

"No wonder," More wrote to the Dean, "your school raises a storm, for it is like the wooden horse in which armed Greeks were hidden for the ruin of barbarous Troy." But the cry of alarm passed helplessly away.

Not only did the study of Greek creep gradually into the schools which existed, but the example of Colet was followed by a crowd of imitators.