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Something is very seriously wrong with the teaching of English in Harvard College. Many beside myself feel this to be true, and some, more immediately concerned, are struggling to improve the situation; but because I have recently been through the awful mill of English concentration, and, because through business activity since graduation I have come in direct contact with English instruction in other colleges, I feel justified in writing my criticisms...
Robinson: ". . . That is illustrative, my friends, of how a good man can go wrong, and how far wrong he can go, and what a fool he can make of himself after he has gone wrong...
Heflin: "What wrong was there in doing that...
...They haven't touched a word of it," declared Mr. Blinn, "and what is more, a minister came up to me the other day and said that he saw or heard nothing wrong in the play. Many people have thought that the play was a little risque, but with the recommendation of a minister behind it, even Boston cannot make a fuss...
Whatever is wrong with the present lecture system is not altogether to be charged against the professors--who, it may be noted, are always the most progressive group in a university, the students and Convocation being the most conservative. Lectures are a remnant of mediaevalism and date from a time when there were no text-books...