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...college men are Parkman, Warner, Lodge, Fiske, various Adamses, Hale, Higginson, White, Story, Cranch, Scudder, Leland, DeForest, Curtis, Norton, J. F. Clarke, Ripley; Stedman offsets Bryant as coming between the two classes. Of non-college men a 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...
...James Parton's new lecture is entitled "The Coming Man's Education." It begins: "I have in my mind's eye a glorious university, completely organized and equipped to afford an education such as the future man will be given. It looks not at all like Oxford or Cambridge, or even like Harvard. It looks more like a factory village situated in the midst of a finely cultivated farm of one thousand acres, with beautiful gardens and parks, the whole the centre of a thriving industry such as our factory villages might be, must be, shall and are just going...
...infer from the tone of an article in the Virginia University Magazine, that the writer has been reading Parton's Aaron Burr. He says, "What Burr actually was is simply told when we pronounce him to be the most unlucky man that ever lived...