Word: childe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Child is giving a course of twelve lectures on "Early English Poetry," on Wednesday and Friday evenings, at the Institute, Boston...
...essay states that a small boy who is obliged to learn the English language is subjected to "one of the most mind-stunting processes that has ever formed a part of the general education of any people." Then again it says, "the child who has difficulty in learning to spell may be expected to develop strong logical faculties...
...young man the capacity to choose starts up of itself, ready made. It is not so. Choice, like other human powers, needs practice for strength. Keep a boy from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit it is more dangerous. For building up a moral manhood, the very errors of choice are serviceable...
...Furnival speaks as follows on Prof. Child's "English and Scottish Ballads": "It seems strange at first sight that Englishmen should leave literary work which specially belongs to them to be done by Germans and Americans. And now we have the only fit edition of our best English and Scotch ballads by an American, too, - the well known Chaucer scholar, Professor F. J. Child of Harvard. The ballad lover confesses gladly that no one else has done such admirable work at our old popular ballads as Professor Child is doing has done. The book is an honor to its editor...
...third volume of Child's Scottish Ballads has appeared...