Word: masson
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Scribner's for March there appeared a severe criticism on Mr. Lowell's "Among My Books," in which the writer, referring to Professor Masson, says: "He has also done a noble work in his Professorship at Edinburgh, where he has accomplished what the united Faculty of Harvard College have thus far failed in doing, for he has created among his own students an ardent love for the study of Belles-Lettres." Has our Faculty failed in awakening an interest in literature in this College? Is it a fact that the cultivation of a good style and of taste in letters...
...wish to dispute with the reviewer on Mr. Lowell's "absolute right to deal with Professor Masson as the Nation might deal with a Sophomore," but if he could see the well-attended readings at Harvard Hall he would find another evidence of the weakness of his assertion, and that we owe our love of literature not a little to Mr. James Russell Lowell...