Harvard College
Published: 2017-05-22
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Excerpt from Harvard College Class of 1895: Baccalaureate Sermon, Baccalaureate Hymn, Class Day Oration, Class Poem, Ivy Oration, Ode In many ways this course was worse adapted to the time than the theological training had been to its time. The theological training had, indeed, given exclusive attention to a single line of inquiry about the relations of man to the universe, but it had, in its way, attempted to solve the problems of life. The Renais sance made no such attempt. The thoughts of the classic authors were admitted to be ill-adapted to modern needs, it was not the thoughts, but the form of these thoughts that was held dear. The object of education became not intellectual inquiry, but intellectual polish. SO highly was this polish prized by the classical humanists that they disregarded the fact that to only a few men would such polish be more than a very small force in their lives; they were not troubled because their system resulted in an extreme cultivation Of the memory to a neglect Of the other faculties Of their students' minds; and at a time when modern society was shaping new institutions and even when modern inquiry was growing rich with discoveries in natural science, they kept aloof, dreading to be disturbed from their worship Of ancient languages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
