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...next volume in the "English Men of Letters" series will be "Bacon," by Dean Church...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :- Dear Sirs : The report of President Porter's recent lecture on European colleges and schools, as copied in the HERALDCRIMSON from the News, is likely to diffuse some very erroneous ideas respecting certain very important features of the English universities and schools, and I think you will not be unwilling to allow a little space for their correction. Let me premise however that it seems to me probable the News reporter may have misunderstood President Porter's remarks, as I should suppose a gentleman so eminent as a scholar and as the head of a great college...
...public schools intimately connected with the universities, one to one, another to another. The student passes from the school to the university without an examination. He is retained at the school six years. Add two years to our preparatory schools, and two to our college, and we have the English system." The italics are mine. Farther on is this passage. "Then, in aristocratic England a university man has great political and social advantages, which, in a democratic country like America, count for little...
...from any school to the university without examinations." At some of those named above, examiners-dis-tinguished fellows of the colleges-go down annually from Oxford and Cambridge to the schools, and examine, chiefly by papers,-as the Harvard examiners now do at Chicago, Philadelphia, and other centres-in English classics, mathematics, natural sciences and modern languages-and those who pass that examination with credit are awarded scholarships as exhibitions at certain colleges...
...referring to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Lord Coleridge, said : "I am willing to place the judge against the advocate, the decision of one thoroughly acquainted with the classics against the plea of one who acknowledges himself unfamiliar with them." Dr. Murray, dean of the college and professor of English literature, said that as one who had had the superintendency of the college essays of both classical and scientific students for eight years, as he had had, he could not help noting the power the study of Greek gave in English sentence making ; that, while there are men of letters...