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...owing to the great changes which are going on in society. It will be a difficult task to bring order out of the seeming chaos of ideas and emotions which fills modern literature, but one worth ambition. Dr. Bernbaum's studies in the literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. When the problems of the present were in process of birth, together with his well-known interest in these problems and the literary expression of them, especially fit him to undertake the work. The course is a new departure on the part of the department of English which...
...reformed Commencement, the Alumni Bulletin claims, is very desirable. While no one asks for a reversion to the convivial orgies of the early nineteenth century, the time seems to have come for the periodical revision of the ceremonies. The undergraduates, as well as the alumni, cannot be satisfied with the exclusiveness of Sanders Theatre, which offers only a few scattered corners for guests after the thousand degree holders have entered...
...Editor of the Atlantic, who was also a member of the firm of Ticknor and Fields, was a valued and valuable friend to every author of distinction during the middle of the nineteenth century. When they learned of his fondness for the original manuscripts of famous books, they gave him the best they had saved from the printer and furnace-man. Lowell sent him the Second Series of the 'Bigelow Papers,' 'as a trifling acknowledgment of many substantial obligations,' and Holmes inscribed the manuscript of 'The Guardian Angel' as 'A token of kind regard from one of many writers...
...list of the autograph letters selected by Mrs. Fields for the two scrap books which she bequeathed to the College would contain the names of most of the writers of the nineteenth century. When these are added to the catalogue of those which Mr. Winsor and Mr. Lane have for many years been accumulating for the College Library, recently very largely increased by the gift of Dr. Rupert Norton's collection, by those in the Harry Widener Library, and those of Mr. Robert Gould Shaw, the College will have available for use a very important body of material illustrating...
...from one small group of the population the college-bred, from one small geographical area, the northeastern section of the United States; from one small group of occupations, the professions." In reply to the criticism that the recent growth of the West makes a study of general nineteenth century talent unfair, Prof. Nearing chose 200 men in "Who's Who" who were born since 1870. The result was substantially the same...