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...approximately Nationalist "President" in the Anglo-Saxon sense...
...fall in with the traditions of the North American film at all. He rather objects, for instance, to the idea that all children from south of the Rio Grande grow up to be craven desperadoes to be slaughtered or knocked out by iron-fisted vigilantes with curly hair, alleged Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and IT. He has a sort of a case, perhaps. But these Latins never seem to have a proper sense of good, clean fun and don't understand what an important and necessary part they play in film land...
...pursue this system will read particularly widely. The other plan is intended more for the man who means to pursue the study of English farther. It requires at least six elective courses in English, at least two others in English or allied fields, and a reading knowledge of Anglo-Saxon, the earliest form of the language. It is desired that all candidates for honors in English shall have some knowledge of Continental literature; among the modern literatures, next in importance to French and German is Italian. Of special importance are the classics. In fact, if a man plans to proceed...
From this foundation, which is the one substantial spot of the whole book, Mr. Lindsay builds up an aery fantasy of verse as free in line and thought as the natural beauty which inspired it. Even the Anglo-Saxon carying a heavy load of civilization up the mountain has enough of the savage in him to appreciate this lyric interpretation of the liberty of the open summit...
...rather than phililogical. The plan of work for the Doctorate in English at Harvard, as at present constituted, appears to rest on two fallacies. One is the assumption that a knowledge of Germanic Philology is an essential prerequisite to an understanding of English Literature, combined with the conviction that Anglo-Saxon has a direct connection with English Literature. The other is a refusal to admit the fact that scholars fall naturally into two classes, the research worker and the teacher, the one who collects the material and the other who presents it. It is true that occasionally...