Word: adamsers
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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IN his Phi Beta Kappa oration, quoted in the last Magenta, Mr. Adams touches a chord which by both faculty and students should be made to vibrate in response. With characteristic calmness and decision he brings against Harvard two serious charges, the more serious because coming from one who at...
The counts in the indictment of Charles Francis Adams vs. Harvard College, as the readers of his oration will remember, are, in brief, these: that our course of instruction is utterly deficient in two branches, both of the utmost importance in fitting young men to take part in public affairs...
These charges are not new; they have been heard in other though humbler quarters before, and, what is worse, Harvard cannot do otherwise than plead an unqualified "guilty" in the face of them. If it be urged that a short course in rhetoric and a few themes are sufficient for...
Since writing the above, it has come to my knowledge that a teacher in elocution has now been provided for Seniors. Thankful for small favors, let us hope that this is the beginning of such extensive additions to our course as Mr. Adams advises.
AN important, though not very prominent, feature in this oration was Mr. Adams's satirical allusion to the proneness of men to forget or despise the teachings of experience. However well merited any general censure in this regard is, the orator had no occasion to complain for himself; the earnest...