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Foerster has here formulated his ideas concerning the relation of humanism to graduate study and scholarship. In a day when all educational ideals and methods are up for reexamination and appraisal, this book is particularly timely, and no one interested in such questions can afford to be ignorant of this carefully considered statement by one of the leading thinkers of his day. Originally published in 1929.

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The authors of this study deplore the present gulf that lies between the creative writer and the scholar. In five stimulating essays on letters, language, literary history, criticism, and imaginative writing, they challenge our prevailing pedantries and offer a program for revitalizing literary scholarship in the universities. Authoritative and brilliantly written, this book anticipates a fuller place for humane learning in American life.

Originally published in 1941.

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This brief discussion of higher education is based on the argument that the spirit of the humanities should dominate the entire program of a public university. The central position of the humanities cannot be recognized in present-day universities that have a naturalistic and utilitarian orientation. Only when this has been changed will a fundamental improvement in higher education be possible.

Originally published in 1946.

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"Before our war we were to Europe but a huge mob of adventurers and shopkeepers. Leigh Hunt expressed it well enough when he said that he could never think of America without seeing a gigantic counter stretched all along the seaboard.'' It is the Civil War that James Russell Lowell referred to in this passage; it is the Civil War that revealed once more, as the War of Independence had also revealed, the idealism of those remote forbears of ours who came to this continent "not to seek gold, but God." But after the Civil War, our material prosperity grew apace, until our ideals seemed gradually...