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...none of this has saved James from becoming for many readers simply an exquisite specimen of nineteenth century intellectual history. He wore a beard when beards were fashionable--an unfashionable capitulation for a Harvard man. And his massive work on psychology contains only one tiny paragraph on sexuality--an equally unfashionable oversight today. Sex leads to Vienna, however, and few writers complement each other as well as Freud and James...
...smooth and winning translation by Neal Kozodoy of a midrash called "The Death of Moses" and an adaptation of a lecture presented before the Harvard-Radcliffe Forum by Jacob Katz. Professor Katz, now visiting from the Hebrew University, is a world-famous expert on Judaism in the Nineteenth Century; hence it is a fine thing to publish him even though his command of English prose is not all it might be. His article, "Secular Interpretation of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century," will not electrify his professional colleagues, since he clearly is aiming it at a general audience...
...last years of his life, James penetrated into the citadels of Old World learning. His immensely successful lectures at Oxford and Edinburgh, perhaps more than anything else, demonstrated that America had come of age intellectually. Europe and America, the sciences and the humanities, nineteenth century and twentieth century--in James they all blend, in James they seem to find their finest mediator...
...last of the nineteenth century rebellions was the most violent one. It started when a freshman refused to obey the instructions of a tutor and was accordingly punished by the administration. His classmates came to his rescue, assembled under Rebellion Elm, and stirred rioting which interrupted classes for two months. Tutors' windows and furniture were smashed, torpedoes were sailed through the Chapel, President Josiah Quincy was hanged in effigy, and explosions violated the virtuous Yard. A number of the rioters received the customary dismissal but at least two were taken to court and tried on a variety of civil charges...
Kerr noted a number of historical "ideals" of the university which have been combined in "multiversity." "The real line of development for the modern American university" Kerr said, began with the acceptance in the mid-nineteenth century of the German ideal of education. Instituted at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, this conception "brought with it the graduate school with exceptionally high academic standards," the renovation of professional education, the department system, research institutes, university presses and other new institutions...