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England is depicted in English as the country which Dickens describes in The Cricket on the Hearth. The conclusion drawn from this picture of England (in the nineteenth century) is that "Dickens gives many pictures of the hard and ugly life of the working people in capitalist England...
...least one institution thoroughly organized and amply endowed at which it shall be a principal aim to carry those students who have the highest talents to the highest degree of culture." For more than two centuries Harvard had been a small college. To be sure, by the early nineteenth century it had entered claim to the title "university" by establishing graduate study in medicine, law and divinity. Yet, in the middle of the last century, like the other colleges of the time, it was little more than a small provincial school...
...Parietal regulations are antiquated, ridiculous, nineteenth centuryish, and unnecessary. This is because: A) enforcement of the regulations are such that any enterprising, intelligent student can violate them if he desires and stand a good chance of not being discovered; B) segregation of male and female is unnatural and builds unstable and unbalanced personalities...
There was a considerable turnover of tutors, but the staff was academically inbred. Except for the French instructors, the College did not have a single teacher before the nineteenth century who was not a Harvard graduate...
...last decade of the nineteenth century, Southerners in significant numbers were again cautiously proceeding eastward, particularly to Princeton. Harvard was definitely in the hinterlands, and as late as 1929 only 24 students entered the college from the thirteen Southern states...