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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprising, that the Union should undertake the establishing of a reading-room, and it would seem as if, on account of its feeling the need more strongly and realizing the benefit more perfectly, the Union ought to succeed in its undertaking. We sincerely hope that the list of names on the book at the Co-operative Society's office will be greatly lengthened by Thursday; and in urging the students of Harvard to give their support to this organization, we believe we are urging them to do what will benefit themselves, and increase the value of a college course...
...larger number may readily be named, Walt, Whitman, Whipple, Trowbridge, Fields, Parton, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, Eggleston, Harte, Howells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton, Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gilder, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain, Burroughs. It is possible that some name has been put in one or the other of these lists on the wrong side, but there can be no considerable error, and any one can add to either list according to his own judgment without materially disturbing the balance...
...confidently be affirmed that the proportion of non-collegiate men in the lists of authorship is greater to-day than it was in that indefinite period known as 'before the war.' Making a list hastily of well-known authors, setting their names down as they occur to us, it appears that Irving, Poe, Cooper and Whittier are almost the only names of men of the first rank who did not have a college education. Bryant began a college course, but was compelled to discontinue it. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Willis, Prescott, Bancroft. Motley, the two Danas, were all college...
...test the matter in another way, the catalogue of the publishing firm was taken, which is recognized as publishing the most representative list of American books. Here strictly professional books were ruled out, and the authors divided into two classes, the dead and the living. Of the dead there are forty-two names. Ten, or less than one-fourth were not college men. Of the living, we count 133 names. Fifty-one, or more than one third, are not college men. Of course, this cannot be called a scientific test, yet it approximates such a test, and shows with tolerable...
...students unsupplied with the announcements concerning forensics for 1885-86, can obtain copies of the pamphlet at U. 5. Especial attention is called to the fact that the present pamphlet contains a list of such among last year's topics as will not be accepted for use during the coming year...