Harper's Anthology

Prose

Colleges

have their indispensable office-to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires set the hearts of their youth on flame.

-RALPH WALDO EMERSON

For College Courses in
Composition and Literature

Prose

Edited by

FREDERICK A. MANCHESTER

WILLIAM F. GIESE

University of Wisconsin

Publishers

HARPER & BROTHERS

New York and London

1926