Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . ngs may be acquired inthat manner—rigorous mutual fidelity, reticence, steadfastness, mildstoicism and other virtues far transcending your Greek can the unwisest prescribed course of study be consideredquite useless, if it have incited you to try nobly on all sides fora course of your own. To Tennyson, deeply pondering on the ideas of thenew age, the narrowness and dryness of academicteaching and the blindness of the teachers to everysubject of human interest, t
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . ngs may be acquired inthat manner—rigorous mutual fidelity, reticence, steadfastness, mildstoicism and other virtues far transcending your Greek can the unwisest prescribed course of study be consideredquite useless, if it have incited you to try nobly on all sides fora course of your own. To Tennyson, deeply pondering on the ideas of thenew age, the narrowness and dryness of academicteaching and the blindness of the teachers to everysubject of human interest, to every new applicationof human knowledge was intolerably hateful. Hisindignant feelings found vent in a noble sonnet of 1830. Therefore your Halls, your ancient Colleges,Your portals statued with old kings and gardens, myriad-volumed chapels, and rich carven screens,Your doctors, and your proctors, and your not avail you, when the Day-beam sportsNew-risen oer awakend Albion. No !Nor yet your solemn organ-pipes that blow. Melodious thunders through your vacant courts. TENNYSON AND THE NEW AGE 305 At noou and eve, because your manuer sortsNot with this age, whcrefrom ye stand apart,Because the lips of little children preachAgainst you, you that do profess to teachAnd teach us nothing, feeding not the heart. The sonnet was never included in his publishedworks. The young idealist had his own clear notionof what a University might be, and later, in ThePrincess, expressed his notion of the teaching, old ornew, that should inspire. A classic lecture, rich in scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out, as Tennyson himself might lilt them. The lectures areto include all the new learning that was sealed toCambridge in 1830— aU That treats of whatsoever is, the state. The total chronicles of man, the mind. The morals, something of the frame, the rock. The star, the bird, the fish, the shell, the flower. Electric, chemic laws, and
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