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...distress he would cause among our "very English" students when he wrote the following about Professor Hill's Rhetoric: "Into the higher arts, whether of oratorical or literary expression, the author scarcely pretends to guide his pupils; and it is needless to say that American tastes in both departments differ so widely from those of the best English speakers and writers, that no aspirant to success in this country would look for instruction to a professor even of Harvard College...
First Division. "Do the Faculties of Man differ from those of Brutes in Kind or only in Degree...
Strange how opinions differ! Now we should have thought it quite needless to say that Mr. Curtis is not a graduate of Harvard...
...greatest value of a college course is felt in journalism proper, the editorial department. It is in this part of the work that the writing of themes and forensics will be found of material aid; for a large part of the editorials in the daily papers differ in no respect from the written work required from us. And when to the practice in writing we add that knowledge of European and United States history, of political economy, and of English literature, with which we may go from here so abundantly provided, no better foundation for a successful journalistic career...
...OPINIONS differ as to the merits of the late novel, Student Life at Harvard; but probably no one will dispute that the delineation given in one place of Sam Wentworth is applicable to almost every Harvard man: "Here he was, - a man in stature, but a boy in everything else, with not even a thought as to the ways and means of life, and a horizon that did not reach beyond Class Day." The biography of a student can usually be summed up about as follows: In early life he decided to go to college; goes to the academy...