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...American college course was and is well suited to our social conditions and needs, and any scheme which should entirely subvert it, I, at least, could not regard with a favorable eye. But there is another field of scholastic work little tilled thus far among us, where the widest facilities of research in every direction should be ready at hand, namely, the university or post-graduation curriculum. If now, as is apparently the case, Columbia means to offer to college-bred men superior facilities in the higher departments of literature and philology, I, for one, hail this step...
...poems have the widest range of subjects. In many of them, Nature is handled lovingly. "Daffy Down Dilly" is filled with the very essence of spring. "One misty, moisty morning" might prove a model of vividness and brevity to the many "word-painters" of the present day. Others have sought and found many hidden meanings in the rhymes of this Charlestown singer. According to some of these, "Solomon Grundy" is an epitome of Shakspere's seven ages of man. Another has found a foreshadowing of homoeopathy in the story of the man who sought in brambles a cure for wounds...
...believe that Harvard more than any other college offers means for the most liberal and widest culture, the opinion stated above will seem an erroneous one. We have been accustomed to regard our college as offering to its students the best of advantages, and as initiating one so deeply in the mysteries of a department which he intends to follow as a specialty, that, when brought into competition with students from other colleges, he would at the start have such an advantage as to be able to quickly outstrip his competitors. The facts, however, seem to belie such a belief...