The Battle of the Classics

The battle of the classics is a name that has long been given by histo ons of american higher education through a series of disputes. These debates surrounded places like harvard and princeton and yale, they ended up having wide play in the American media. I talk about a few of them in the book,. i hov try to look at what those arguments were about what the role of latin and greek ought to be at those particular schools. But relis, one thing that i remember a is, while theyare talking and such, giving such flowery defences of the humanities, and how ennobling these books still retain an incredible letis li tats.