Literature and the American college
Subtitle: essays in defense of the humanities
By: by Irving Babbitt.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States; Literature -- Study and teaching
Notes: Partly reprinted from various periodicals.
Table of contents: title: What is humanism?; title: Two types of humanitarians: Bacon and Rousseau.; title: The college and the democratic spirit.; title: Literature and the college.; title: Literature and the doctor's degree.; title: The rational study of the classics.; title: Ancients and moderns.; title: On being original.; title: Academic leisure.