Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentlemen of Harvard, are you aware of the fact that your college is in America and within a few miles of Lexington and Concord? Is it not a strange teaching that you give, by implication at least, when you exclude from your lis's every American writer's works? What inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley...
...Then, when a boy enters, he is free to choose from a large number of electives; and, if he desire, can cover the whole ground of English literature in his four years' course. The writer further complains that a boy who comes to Harvard "saturated" with knowledge of American authors is naturally surprised at failing in an examination because he happens to know nothing about Scott. This seems to us an argument in favor of, not against, our present system. For, if the boy is so "saturated" in American literature, is it not just as well that he should...
...editorial quoted suggests the remedy. It lies with the colleges, not with the schools, for the latter shape their curriculum according to the requirements for admission to college. Let us require, then, in our entrance examinations a knowledge of one or two of the principal American authors. The schools cannot help following our lead in this matter, and it may be the means of lifting from the eyes of the average college student the mist of ignorance of the literature and history of his own country which now envelops...
...course of lectures, under the auspices of Lowell Institute, will be given by Prof. Lyon, of Harvard, on "Ancient American Life." The first lecture will be on Tuesday, Feb. 14th, and the subject will be continued on successive Tuesday and Friday evenings...
PHRENOLOGY.- PROF. P. HOWARD, [graduate of American Inst. of Phren logy]. Examinations by appointment or at No. 12 Story St. For lectures and appointments send postal or call at above address. Excellent testimonials from Yale and Princeton. For a short time only...