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...room for a difference of opinion in regard to the subject discussed by the author of "Literary Ruskinism" in the last Magenta. He objects to the manner of conducting recitations now followed at Harvard, and thinks the object should be to point out to us "the beauties of idea and expression." He likens the present system to that Mr. Ruskin prescribes for the cultivation of the artistic taste, and objects to this, both because it upsets our faith in our old ideas of art, and because, if I understand, it is a system...
...long since classical instruction here rested on a basis entirely different from the present. The works of the grand old thinkers of Greece and Rome were read, not as etymological and grammatical puzzles, but for their beauties of idea and of expression. The student was not asked to rack his brains and search the grammar for the peculiar technical reason for an uncommon use of a subjunctive, or to give a long dissertation on the ground of a Grecian author's choice of the infinitive with av instead of the optative. It was supposed that the average student had sufficient...
...student may study conscientiously, but his study will be a task. He may pore over the pages of his classics in the prescribed manner, but he will rise from his labor with no notion of the grandeur of the work which he has read, - only with a vague idea of disconnected subjunctives and confused optatives floating through his troubled and wearied brain...
THAT the practice of writing for college papers is advantageous, is an idea firmly fixed in the mind of the Harvard student. Many other articles in his creed have been cast aside, but for half a century the truth of this has been undisputed. At the present time, however, this subject is rendered not altogether inappropriate by various considerations, chief of which is the fact that the Sophomores are to discuss it in their next theme...
...does not by any means follow that he who contributes frequently will attain an eminence equal to theirs in his after life, yet while here he is sure by his efforts to win the respect of his associates. Most men come here as Freshmen, with but a slight idea of literary excellence. It may be said, to be sure, that even here no high standard is set before them. But the standard of a college paper, if not the highest, is one at least which all who write are endeavoring to raise. Probably no issue, in all its articles, satisfies...