Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-30

Arnold. Burke, Carlyle, Emerson, Fiske.
Holmes. Irving. Lamb, Lowell, Mdcauiay
and Ruskin Under hctlo4 tit-e h9 Cl.'ts
were needed. Cooper, Dickens, CfeoIse
Eliot Hawthorne Kingsley, Scott, ste
venson ana Thackeray. nder poetry
the list contains these names; Arnoiu'
browning. Mrs. Browning, Burns, Byron.
Coleridse. Hood. seats, L0hsl envy
Lowell. Macaulay, Marlowe. Milton
liam Morris, Poe, Shakesteare, Shel
Swiuburne TennySOn. Whittier
Wordsworth 1t also includes lew o.
| raphies. travels, histories and mise.
| menus hooks. such as Robinson Crusot
| THE Pilgrims Progress, Darwin
scent Ut Man." etc.
| The number OF students who sent
| their records is SO, Or 60 per cent OF tAs
| 104q undergraduates in the UNIVERSITY
| These records have been arranged ac-
| cording To the rank, course and class d
| the men So far as can be ascertalueu
| this is the first time that literary &C"
| sus III such magnitude and thorOushher
| hls been compiled, ana as the Wofh
| hen done entirely by a few undergT|
mates i'm addition to their regular con-
| duties il has been found necessary
| unstnnne the publication Of the othtr
| hles in which the records VIII DC ca
fed according to religious @ NIL
cities. states. preparatory schools lntiel.s
| III professions and fathers profession
| The single table that has been publlsha
involved the careful examination OF ~
81 sen1r1fc answers the calculation
| IL 1cN Percentages ana OF 5bSS averages
The men in the academic depar tme
| candidates Tor the utSitt u
| Low If Arte-are found to have read me-
nn,trv more Of Matthew Arnold a.
| Fmcrson's essays, ~ Hawthorne, ME-
lev and Stevenson, yet on tne WhoiS,
| sci.ntitir meu-i e. candidates for bacl
slnr III science-seem to have been ~
erratic. more symmetrical In their res
ing. In the comparison or classes :,
ii,t,1,i,r is the hest raad-better even q
the senior; although the seniors 49,
: nnetry ana the res1men nave Ieau -
f EnlmCs Lamb, Lowell ana cooper.
! fiction there is little difference DEW
| tba classes hut in poetry tneic II ! W
difference. showing that good poetry
VIVA 4 great deal more in coliege ina
| ttnnd,rd fiction. The poetry NariSs All t ny
way from Arnold = fa ne students ned have
ran1 to .'Evangeline" ana Paul revere
2 Ride" each 81 per cent. ,,la,
= Lonefellow is by far the most p Rprns
1 poet. then COM Nnn nh On IN endinl
mith Wordsworth, shelley, Mrs BroN u
8 WI WI" Morris and Arnold. The most pop
uiar q Shakespeare,s GH iaIIs ars Rome
h npd Juliet:" Of Tennyson's poems u
r G,harre of the Light Brigade ~ pc
cent? In essays. Irving comes HS, - "a,
| Rurke and finally Arnold, lshe - 49,, - N
lii in fiction three rough groups CAL y
5 traced according to preference: - ,
!. Scntt Cooper and Dickens; second ~
r rensnn ana Hawthorne: third hhchet = I, Z
i Kingsley and George floti a ~. rru
-, fq2 Der cent?. The academic cla is
IRE divided into four Sr3ups' of Tres
e Ia their rank in scholarship. nn',n
Crouns the relative order In the dn ann y
I! their reading is: In fiction, %, AIN, ;
All 1St. i'm nOctry, LIST, I'd ana 81. a.I
a. 4 whole. the table shows an exc
lent acquaintance win St iIl an, IN III
ture and indicates a healthy Tone III GU ~
& iitar,rv life of the underSraduttes- =.
q ther nroyed ~ the fact that such VT
4 has been voluntarily accomphsneu'