Word: scott
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Unquestionably the lists indicate a lamentable narrowness of view and a disposition to direct the study of English literature into certain rigidly-confined channels. Shakespeare, Scott and Goldsmith-these are great names, but to have an adequate acquaintance with English literature one must know the works of many other writers. A great educational institution ought to direct the attention of its students to Milton, for example, and to Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Thackeray, Dickens, Pope, Dryden, Sterne, Burton, and some dozens besides...
...familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must fail in his examination? Is Scott, then, the one writer of fiction whose works an American boy should read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention? Is it your purpose to teach him that Hawthorne, Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson and Lowell are of minor...
...desire, can cover the whole ground of English literature in his four years' course. The writer further complains that a boy who comes to Harvard "saturated" with knowledge of American authors is naturally surprised at failing in an examination because he happens to know nothing about Scott. This seems to us an argument in favor of, not against, our present system. For, if the boy is so "saturated" in American literature, is it not just as well that he should be expected to find out something in regard to the writers and masterpieces of England? There is a fallacy...
...Scott, proctor in Weld, will leave college this week. Mr. J. H. Gray, '87, at present proctor in College House, will take his place...
...philosophical or high oration appointment have been taken into Phi Beta Kappa: Lester Bradner, jr., J. R. Ensign, W. A. McQuaid, O. H. Richardson, Ferdinand Schwill, H. F. Walker, W. P. Aiken, J. W. Banks, George Coggill, C. F. Kent, W. H. Page, H. L. Reed, E. D. Scott, H. A. Smith, A. L. Winters, G. W. Woodruff, Horace Wylie...