The college is fortunate in having an opportunity to hear Mr. Black deliver his lectures on literary topics. In giving his Mr. Black is filling a distinct need at the university. A large number of men who come to college have to devote so much of their time to whatever special courses they are pursuing that they find no time for that more delicate form of education which is found in a study of literature. They have not the leisure to take one of the English courses, and yet they feel the need of some general knowledge of English literature if they are to pass as educated gentlemen. Mr. Black in his lectures promises to meet just these needs and to afford through a series of eight talks much of that grounding in literature which the busy are not able to get, and which everyone who has the instincts of an educated man wishes to possess.
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