Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Commencement Exercises, New Professors, Address of John Finley, LL. D., New York
I wondered why the Cambridge mother let this portrait of the handsome, dreamful young man, who became in age the bitter satirist of heavy figure, hang 011 her college walls, to mock her classical disciplines and her seemingly unpractical courses, her cloistered ways, -and her worship of the past. Many a New World university might covet his presence to countenance its practicality, its modernity, its academic freedom, its adventurous scholarship, and its fearlessness of mind.
But to - day the youthful portrait is hanging on a hall almost deserted. The students of courses which he cal and atrophying have gone forth to prove the valor of their cloistered and unpractical learning.
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