Word: tottel
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Saturday Evening Post which it criticises. If the writer really believes that familiarity with so significant an event as the Treaty of Utrecht indicates "a pedantic hankering after specific facts" and that the date of so significant a landmark in the history of English literature as the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany is to be considered deadwood. I feel sure he is in a fair way of becoming the type of college graduate (not limited to Harvard) to which I took objection. I doubt if either a trend of thought or a vision will wholly save...
...well, that marks the educated man from the uneducated. It is the capacity to use facts and see their relations. Thus among Harvard undergraduates who are keenly alive to the present, those events in the past which bear upon the present interest them in proportion to this relation. When Tottel's Miscellany appeared, or who the first Merovingian king was, may be required in a course, but after the examination it is so much deadwood, and as such is speedily forgotten. Four years of plowing through courses, and sifting of facts, however, bring out certain significant relations, and the earnest...