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Three causes were assigned for our deficiencies in literary taste : A reaction against the false views which prevailed fifty years ago as to the proper use of literature. It was in those days considered an essential for a well-bred man to be conversant with all famous authors. Education, therefore, consisted largely in a cramming process by which the student should become versed in the lives and writings of those men who had won the admiration of the world ; the proper method of testifying progress was to echo the praises which general use endorsed as appropriate. This was usually done...
...votes, however, do show that the number of college-bred men engaged in literature is still a very large one. It has often been charged that the colleges are rapidly losing their influence in literature as the general standard of education is raised throughout the country. This is held to be the ease, particularly with the graduates of the larger colleges, such as Yale and Harvard. The fact that thirty per cent, of the men chosen by the reading public to represent American literature, received their education at Harvard disproves this statement as far as the graduates of that college...
...unusual length of time under the "object-glass." How sad! "A three-horned dilemma presents itself at this juncture: First, the new A. B. signally lacks that very perfection in detail which is breath to the nostrils of society. Finesse of manner can be acquired, but the college-bred have an aversion to artificial veneer. "Are you sound at the core" is their text. Second, the new A. B. is placed in a quasi electric light of criticism which magnifies imperfections and leaves beauties normal size. Third, the A. B. herself possesses some of the characteristics of an unsatisfied molecule...
...particular, namely, the light in which the profession of journalism is regarded. A few days since one of our exchanges made use of some figures to show the difference the last few years have made, and the result was surprising. The same feeling can be traced here. College-bred men from one cause or another naturally drift into journalism, and every year the change is becoming more marked. Whether or not the story of the "Western editor" and his "fortune" is a myth, nevertheless we cannot but think that some such move as he proposed could be most advantageously made...
...proportion of liberally educated men in the professions, the Times says it is evident that the tendency is not toward keeping it true. The "public service" is in a condition so anomalous that it is not right to argue from it. But whereas a generation ago, college-bred men were to be found only in the three "learned professions," they are now to be found, and every year in greater numbers, in occupations not at that time recognized as professions at all. In journalism there will be no dispute that this is true, but it is equally true of callings...