W. Jackson Bate et al. (Editors)
Harvard Scholars in English, 1890 to 1990.
Harvard University, 1991. First edition. xii/129 pages.
Volume is bound in maroon cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine and Harvard insignia stamped in gold on front cover. Book is new.
The memoirs in this volume consist, with one exception, of the "Faculty Minutes" prepared at Harvard, by a committee, after the death of professors who actively taught at Harvard until retirement....These memoirs date from the 1890s. Yet even in the period covered, which is only a fraction of Harvard's history of over 350 years, they illustrate the Harvard tradition of literary pluralism, and the refusal of the university, in this as in other subjects, to espouse a particular ideology, though several of the individuals discussed havve been creative in starting or developing grounds for a particular ideology while others have been opposed to ideology as single-minded." (From the Introduction).