College Sons and College FathersHarper & brothers, 1915 - 232页 |
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第194页 - I will not say with pedantical correctness, for that is not an ideal, but with accuracy and transparency of thought — listen to the talk about you! However, it is the business of the colleges to improve all that; and though it is not easy to develop in youth virtues which are more admired than practised by maturity, let us assume that they should succeed in turning out writers of satisfactory ability, even with these handicaps, and look deeper for the cause of their relative failure. The chief...
第218页 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
第113页 - Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await ? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional,. Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky, And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye : But, to his native centre fast, Shall into Future fus.e the Past, And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast.
第228页 - ... the night more sharply than the scientist in teaching English from the inspirationist. The literary scientist sprang into being when the scientific activity of the nineteenth century reached aesthetics and began to lay bare our inaccuracies and our ignorance. Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Defoe — we knew all too little about their lives, and of what we knew a disgraceful part was wrong. Our knowledge of the writers of the Anglo-Saxon period, and of the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, of the...
第202页 - Optimist in composition you must have some stirrings of democracy in 201 your veins. You must be interested in the need of the average man to shape his writing into a useful tool that will serve his purposes, whether in the ministry or the soap business. This is the utilitarian end of writing English. And you must be interested in developing his powers of self-expression, even when convinced that no great soul is longing for utterance, but only a commonplace human mind—like your own— that will...
第220页 - Justice Shallow," writes a Freshman, "seems to be a jolly old man who loves company, and who would do anything to please his guests." "Justice Shallow," says another, "was an easy-going man; that is, he did not allow things to worry him. At times he was very mean." "Justice Shallow," a third proposes, "is kindhearted. . . . He means well, but things do not come out as he had planned them.
第101页 - Most of all, he broadens and deepens his mind until it is "liberalized," until it is made free of the world that man's intellect has conquered for us. And thus college education in its high measure and college life in its minor fashion both drive at the same general results. Both aim at a sense of proportion in living^ both aim at a useful, active knowledge of true values in life. But unfortunately for our peace of mind, and unfortunately for the prestige of the American degree, college education...
第229页 - ... specialists in some form of literary research. As far as the teacher is concerned, the result has doubtless been good. There have been broader backgrounds, more accuracy in statement, less "bluffing" — in a word, more thoroughness ; and the out-and-out scientists have set a pace in this respect which other teachers of English have had to follow. But curiously enough, while the teacher of English, and especially the professed scientist, has become more thorough, the students are said to be less...
第228页 - ... teach literature than the facts about literature. And all these things are among the ingredients of literature. I am merely pointing out the extremes of extra-literary endeavor into which the remoteness of the philosophers, the slackening of religious training in the home, and the absence of aesthetic influences in American life, have driven some among us. A friend of mine begins his course in Carlyle with a lecture on the unreality of matter, Browning with a discussion of the immortality of...
第225页 - ... usually superficial in his reading, and sometimes merely barbarous in the use he makes of it ; but there is more gained from his training in literature than meets the sight. Thus the effects of English teaching are sometimes hidden. But English teachers are so common nowadays that of them everyone may form his own opinion. And, indeed, the rain of criticism falls upon just and unjust alike. The undergraduate, if he takes the trouble to classify his teachers of English otherwise than as "hard"...