Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about the general literature of England, (for I purposely omit all reference to American authors) are two unsatisfactory half-courses, in neither one of which is given more than twenty-eight hours of instruction during the year. These half courses, besides being wholly inadequate to the needs of the college, are so grouped, moreover, that they cannot be taken in conjunction with some others...
...least not insurmountable. The work which would fall upon the instructors would of course, be considerable. But the work should by no means be confined to one man. The course should be divided into several parts, one instructor should lecture on English and continental affairs, another on American affairs, and a third on the economic aspects of events. The labor in this way would be greatly divided. Each instructor would lecture once a week, with the privilege of omitting a lecture should there not be sufficient material for a fruitful discussion. Instructors in other departments of the college, whenever anything...
...every type of goodness, evil, and indifference will characterize the student life. Every university or college possesses proofs of this. But Harvard is, perhaps, at present unique in one particular, boasts a higher perfection in one field, enjoys deeper draughts of one pleasure than any other college in an American's knowledge. This is the work of Harvard poets. The work of our poets is the model of the western college poetasters and is therefore simply another example of our increasing greatness. As such, let us consider it for a moment. Of course we have differentiations of the poetic sense...
...college by only three students. The Pacific slope, which is ten times farther away, sends thirty students here; the city of San Francisco alone has twenty-two. And yet there is probably as large a well-to-do class in either Montreal or Quebec as there is in the American city. The great difficulty about attracting Canadian students to this country is, that a college is almost entirely deprived of the most effective means of overcoming international prejudice and conservatism - advertising. A college can not, or from motives of professional etiquette, will not avail itself of the methods, which...
...contrasted with those in the old and of past ages, which must be called "self-contained and self-seeking," for they discourage, and therefore do not deserve public good-will and respect. Such institutions "care naught for the people, and the people care naught for them." But our American colleges and universities have reached a point of liberalism which may justly place them above those of the old world. By their liberality to the people they gain a well deserved respect. The people see the light that the colleges do not conceal, as of old, but let shine where...