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...innocent fool that I was, shook my head. "There's nothing in it," I asserted. "Now I am going to get a liberal education in fifteen minutes a day by reading Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelves. Join me, Tom, and you'll never regret...
...well printed - mental bouillon cubes for an age that takes its information like its breakfast cereal, on the run, and, if possible, predigested - another century may find, perhaps, the whole scope of human knowledge boiled down and salted away in one magnificent, laconic Outline of Outlines, supplanting colleges and five-foot shelves alike. At any rate, here is the first volume of The Outline of Literature - 294 pages covering the rise and progress of human letters from the first books in the world to the age of Spenser. The corpse has been neatly dissected; every large muscle stands...
They were encouraged, first, to take a few courses at Columbia; since they were so fortunate as to live in New York; then, to subscribe to a correspondence course; next to buy Dr. Eliot's "Five-Foot Shelf". Since they asked for advice about books, Dartmouth sent a list of 155, dating from Walter Scott to Booth Tarkington--recommending Barrie and Shaw especially. President Hibben suggested, among others, "Introduction to Political Science" by Pettell, "The Life of Abraham Lincoln" by Lord Charnwood, and "Literary Taste and How to Form It," by Arnold Bennett...
There is one extenuation for his choice he admits that his books have been picked with more regard for their influence on mankind, than for their value as literature. He is not preparing the catalogue for a desert island library, or a five-foot shelf, but merely explaining, no doubt, the sources for his own greatest chapters. The "well-educated man", that much-advised individual, is under no compulsion to read them. Nor is he likely to be tempted
...Worrall '20, J. F. Wason '20, P. B. Elliot Occ., J. G. Winchester '23, W. C. Bennett '23, M. A. Hay '23, J. B. Paine '23. The steeplechase race is so arranged that there will be five jumps every lap. There will be three 11-2-foot hurdles, one five-foot water jump and one three-foot breast jump...