Word: classicists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...LaFarge attacks, Mr. Jayne defends, the new form. Mr. Jayne's essay is very thoughtful but we can imagine becoming quite as absorbed in "Paradise Lost" as in "Christable." Mr. LaFarge is very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions of war in the abstract, of which the first would seem the justest, though the author obviously did not mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather...
...gained which could properly be given to the study of the works as literature and to and estimate of the real character of the classics. Such courses would not only be valuable to the general student, but would also be useful in supplementing the training of the specialized classicist. The classical department must always offer a certain amount of philological work for those who are to become professional scholars; but there will always be a much larger number of general students whose claims are equally urgent...