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...editorial on the proposed American Academy has called forth a communication, which we print in another column. We think our correspondent takes too serious a view of the matter. No one proposes at present to establish an academy as far as we know, and we think the time is yet far distant when such an academy would be advisable. In fact if there were such an academy, it is our opinion that it should be an academy of the English speaking peoples, and that America should unite with England in its formation. As the purpose of such an academy...
...after the spring recess. During this period, just before setting to work for the annuals, the student has many spare moments which could be advantageously devoted to a few interesting and practical talks on the subject of English literature, with which every educated man ought to be acquainted. We think if the gentlemen interested in this plan were enabled to carry it out, their endeavors would be appreciated by the college...
Deny the facts altogether, I think, he hardly can. He can hardly deny, that when we set ourselves to enumerate the powers which go to the building up of human life, and say that they are the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners-he can hardly deny that this scheme, though drawn in rough and plain lines and not pretending to scientific exactness, does yet give a fairly true representation of the matter. Human nature is built up by these powers; we have the need...
Even if literature is to retain a large place in our education, yet Latin and Greek, say the friends of progress, will certainly have to go. Greek is the grand offender in the eyes of these gentlemen. The attackers of the established course of study think that against Greek, at any rate, they have irresistible arguments. Literature may perhaps be needed in education they say; but why on earth should it be Greek literature? Why not French or German? Nay, 'has not a man of English speech models in his own literature of every kind of excellence?' As before...
...would think that if all this were true our poor "unsatisfied molecule" would be sunk in the depths of despair. But no, there is a grain of consolation, and although we don't exactly understand, the next paragraph evidently contains this consolation. "But the world in general is mediocre-in fact an indifferently clever A. B. is not a rare occurrence. In the case of most people, the boundary line of attainment has an extremely short radius. Tearing intellects do not grow wild, and the dilution of the essence of intelligence may be attributed as the result of dividing...