Word: southernization
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...time and care given to the important study of English at most of the so-called universities and colleges of the north is well shown in a letter to the current Nation, in which the writer gives a statement of the condition of the English department in southern colleges, To us the time and money spent upon English in these less favored institutions of learning will undoubtedly seem small, but in proportion to the money and means at their disposal, it is undoubtedly by no means as small as would appear at first sight. Often, however, the study of English...
Although this statement may savor a little of the enthusiast, it is evident that the study of English has secured a much firmer foot hold among the southern people than was formerly the case...
...Southern club is talked of by the students at Yale, who come from that part of the country...
...intrinsic value in themselves, for the advancement of knowledge. Thus were it not for such considerations, we understand that it might be possible (as was proposed last year), for the Historical Society to secure the delivery of a course of lectures upon the Civil War from the Southern point of view, complementing the valuable series on the same subject given last winter. Instead of one lecture from Mr. Gosse, secured by the enterprise of this Society, if the university were able to undertake such matters, it might supplement its regular instruction in English literature by a more extended course...
...recent graduate of Harvard. The book is a tale of the reconstruction period at the South. and reminds one in its general character of some of Judge Turgee's works. The story is divided into two parts; the first represents the unavailing attempts of a Northern man to overcome Southern prejudice, the record shows the impossibility of freeing a Southern man from the bigoted views which he has been taught from childhood. Immediately after the war, characters such as are described in the book undoubtedly existed in large numbers. but the tendency of latter years has been to soften these...