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...certain number of professors too, the views I hold in this respect will seem not only lacking in conventional politeness but lacking also in substantial precedent. The first is true: the second is an error. The same ideas have been expressed in every generation for a hundred years. Emerson, Upton Sinclair, and Charles Sumner, all at one time or other, spoke directly of the hypocritical and self-serving character of Harvard College...
...Emerson had some memorable words to speak in this regard. Harvard scholars, he wrote in 1861, have no voice in Harvard College: "State Street votes them down on every ballot." Everything is permitted in the university, he said, so long as it adorns the elegance and privilege of Boston. That which implies an ethical provocation is not given voice. Generosity of thought within this university, he said, has a bad name: "The youths come out decrepit citizens...
...race operate similarly on both North and South alike, Aaron believes. The result is a massive literature that skirts the real issues of the War--sometimes coming tantalizingly close, but missing the mark. To prove his point Aaron catalogues the responses of several generations of American writers, starting with Emerson and going all the way to Faulkner...
...literature breaks down into categories, usually determined by age, sometimes by common experience. For example, Emerson and Whittier are grouped together as "Elder Statesmen," Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman take "a philosophical view of the whole affair," while James, Twain, Howells, and Adams are the "Malingerers." Within these categories Aaron analyzes particular responses and finds that, in spite of the collective failure to come to grips with the War, the conflict was a disturbing and compelling experience for each. Especially to men like Twain and Howells, the War marked the turning point in their own American experience--each went through...