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...Harvard of 1936 assemble a more illustrious group of men? The great literary figures of the nineteenth century, like Lowell and Holmes, who were present but who received an honorary degree, can probably not be duplicated. Deficiency on this score may be compensated for by the presence of eminent scientists, who will, perhaps, be more representative of the twentieth century...
...better for worse, German ideals and methods continue to dominate in twenticth century as they did in nineteenth century higher learning in the United States. The graduate schools of arts and sciences of today are modelled on the German universities of 1820, and it was Harvard College and Harvard men who took the lead in the development of the modern graduate school. Mr. Long's essays on Ticknor, Everett, Cogswell, Longfellow, Bancroft, and Motley are this not only chapters in the history of faste and scholarship in this country but are also chapters, and important ones, in Harvard history...
...nineteenth century, American and English scholars imported into their lands the thorough, minute, and exhaustive methods of investigation which had gained so much fame, and accomplished such wonderful results, in Germany. The tradition still survives, and still enlarges, by small steps, the accumulated knowledge of the world. Nothing can be said against the method: it has brought scientific, historical, and literary knowledge where it is today...
Professor Carmichael will replace Professor Boring who has been granted a leave of absence in which he will be writing his new book on the history of experimental psychology in the nineteenth century...
...Thackeray-"with his warped, middle-class outlook, poor, frightened little mid-nineteenth-century Thackeray"-who gave George IV and his Brighton days their bad reputation in Victorian England. To that novelist George was everything that an English monarch should not be: a bigamist, a liar and a lecher who played practical jokes, gambled, drank heavily, and, as Prince of Wales, with an income of ?70,000, managed to accumulate ?250,000 of debts in three years. Brighton, despite its quaint, un-English charm, its surface respectability, had been the scene of his historic revels, remained so charged with memories...