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Wednesday, December 3
We broke off, Gentlemen, upon the somewhat painful conclusion that our Universities were not founded for the study of literature, and tardily admitted it. The dates of our three literary chairs in Cambridge -- I speak of our Western literature only, and omit Arabic, Sanskrit, and Chinese -- clenched that conclusion for us. Greek in 1540, Latin not until 1869, English but three years ago -- from the lesson of these intervals there is no getting away.