Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SELECTIONS " Revolve what tales I have told you."—Shakspere The Situation of a University Elmer Hewitt Capen ... 5 Morning and Afternoon Chapel at Rugby Thomas Hughes 8 The Right Standard .... William Winter .... 12 Charles Dickens the Reader . Kate Field 16 Washington and Franklin . . Walter Savage Landor . . ig Letter to Mr. Johnson (Printer) William Cowper .... 22 Ferdinand and Miranda . . George Meredith .... 24 A Retrospect Victor Hugo 29 Frances Anne Kemble . . . Henry James 30 Elizabethan Poets .... iLlizabetn Barrett Browning 38 Reflections in Westminster Abbey The Spectator 40 Dr. Hale on Emerson . . . The Boston Herald.... 44 My First Play Charles Lamb 46 On Dogs and Cats .... Alexander Dumas .... 50 Rip Van "Winkle Washington Irving ... 53 Browning's First Manuscript. Edmund Gosse 64 The New England Climate in Summer Rufus Choate 66 Anecdotes The Jest Book 67 The Original Draft of The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson .... 70 Genius and Common Sense . William Han lift .... 77 the Inaugural Address delivered at Tufts College. Reprinted with the permission of President Capen. By ELMER HEWITT CAPEN. IN considering the many instrumentalities through which an institution of the higher learning rise to its greatest efficiency, all writers who have given profound attention to the subject agree in attaching great importance to Situation. It must be in a fair spot to which both nature and art have lent their charms. It must be retired, away from the bustle and confusion of the great world where the mind may freely give itself to undisturbed reflections. Yet it must be near some centre of life and trade, and especially does it need to feel the power of a higher intellectual life surging around i... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.