This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... n harvard: A germanized university fn a recent novel, Mr. David Graham Phillips--describes Harvard--and in effect stigmatizes it--as given over to dilettantism in general, and in particular to imitating the English. The idea is widespread and popular. Proceeding, however, from a graduate of Princeton, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... n harvard: A germanized university fn a recent novel, Mr. David Graham Phillips--describes Harvard--and in effect stigmatizes it--as given over to dilettantism in general, and in particular to imitating the English. The idea is widespread and popular. Proceeding, however, from a graduate of Princeton, which has assimilated the Oxford idea of tutorial instruction, and is endeavoring to assimilate the Oxford idea of residence in coordinate colleges or halls, the charge certainly has its humors. The predicament of Harvard is exactly the reverse. As the academic world well knows, the dominant spirit, far from being dilettante, is an austere, even sacrificial, devotion to pure science; and it is a result of the imitation, not of English, but of German, ideals and methods. Several universities--for example, Virginia, Michigan, and Brown--dispute with Harvard priority in intro 37 during the scientific spirit; while others, such as Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins, rival her in present devotion to it; but there can be little question that Harvard has exploited it most prominently and on the largest scale. In its origin--it was founded only sixteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims--Harvard was, like Yale, Princeton, and a score of other institutions that followed in its wake, an exponent of the English ideal of collegiate residence and of general, systematic human culture. Among other things, it was the first to respond to the athletic spirit, and to turn out winning teams. But, almost from the outset, it developed radical individualistic tendencies, which have ceaselessly gathered strength. Traditionally Unitarian, or, as many consider, agnostic, it has, through centuries, stood for reason and liberty as opposed to orthodox...
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