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annrr anh Pot Pnurrt times heard j ' et. Ex-President Roosevelt, it is said, is fond of repeating Professor Lounsbury ' s remark on Cooper ' s statement that lie studied little while at Yale. We need not feel any distrust, observes Professor Lounsburj of Cooper ' s declaration, that little learning of any kind found its way into his head. Least of all will he be inclined to doubt it whom extended experience in the class-room has taught to view with profoundest respect the infinite capability of the human mind to resist the introduction of knowledge. After the Life of Cooper, came the exhaustive Studies in Chaucer, which gave Professor Lounsbury his position as a scholar; and then followed the Shakespearean Wars, a series of volumes dealing with the history of opinion concerning the dramatist — the most comprehensive account we possess of the posthumous fortunes of any English author. Popularly, Professor Lounsbury is most widely known for his many papers that have appeared in the magazines on the proper use of various words, phrases, and constructions. The rhetoricians, for example, say that the split infinitive is bad. Professor Lounsburj ' then proceeds to show that it occurs in most of the great writers and that it is sometimes desirable. Some one puts under the ban the word female, and Professor Lounsbury proceeds to a history of the word from Shakespeare down through the lovely females of the older novelists and concludes that as an adjective at least the word is still indispensable in certain phrases. And so the process has gone on merrily. But as I said at the beginning, the Yale under- graduate does not know Professor Lounsbury merely by his books ; he may hear him read one of his racy papers, or sit and talk with him by the open fire of the Elizabethan Club. W. L. Cross.

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aimuprfiita. 1913-1314 Professor Lounsburj ' s appointment marks the beginning at Yale, and every- where else, of the study of English literature on lines since made familiar. At that time, instruction in English literature was given, in the main, indirectly, through rhetoric and historical manuals. In Yale College, whither Professor Beers had not yet come, all English instruction was brought under the name of rhetoric. In the Sheffield Scientific School, there was nothing but English composition. Professor Lounsbury at once broke completely with tradition. Choosing his own title, he became, not a professor of rhetoric or of oratory, but a professor of English. His contempt for formal rhetoric may be guessed from that delightfully formal saying of his which goes back, I think, to those days. Just as a man, somewhat like this the sentence runs, who hasn ' t money enough to found a college, founds a university; so a man who hasn ' t brains enough to write a grammar, writes a rhetoric. It was a startling innovation when he announced, in describing his first courses, that Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, and Pope are the authors studied throughout this year. For it meant, not what somebody says about them, not reading them aloud for practice in elocution, but a direct and adequate study of those great writers themselves. How far the present method of English instruction in American colleges is due to the example of Professor Lounsbury, may not be easy to determine in detail. It is sufficient to say here that he set the clock to the new time. From all over the country, college teachers used to come to Yale to witness the experiment. As for myself, I never had the privilege of attending one of these recitations, as they were called before the days of quizzes ; but I have heard about them from visitors and students. The men were held down to a very close reading of the author in hand, but zest was given to the M ork by illuminating comment and humorous remarks addressed to the class. What happened on one occasion has been often repeated. It was near the close of the hour, so the story goes, and the class was showing some restlessness, which Professor Lounsbury observed, and thereupon remarked: Bear with me a little longer as I have a few more pearls to cast. Professor Lounsbury has declared the story apocryphal; but several of his students have asserted it to be true, naming time and circum- stance. The reader must decide for himself where the truth lies. It may be added that, on the advice of his friends. Professor Lounsbury no longer denies the tale. For the point in the jest, consult St. Matthew vii. 6. Professor Lounsbury has many books to his credit. There is, for example, that delightful Life of James Fenimore Cooper, based upon an intimate knowledge of Cooper ' s romances and the scenes in which Leather-Stocking played his part. Several epigrammatic sayings from the book passed into circulation, and are some-

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