Professor Hopkins Writes Interestingly of Oxford and its Environs. 125 IFFLEY ROAD, Jan. 21, 1902.
125 IFFLEY ROAD, Jan. 21, 1902.
Dear Professor Carruth:
Yesterday I Received the enclosed envelope, and with it a note of this tenor: "Will you have the kindness to let me know the names of three Kansas poets and a poem by each? Thanking you in advance for the favor, etc." Probably Mr. Oliver Laing no longer needs this information, as his letter is dated Jan. 2, but I would like to refer the question to you, if for no other reason, because I cannot remember the exact titles of what few Kansas poems I do know. I have written him a card to explain the delay, and told him why I could not reply; but I did venture to hint that if I made a list I should put you on it, and I should have given him the title of your poem on what I always think of as the "universal question" if I could have recalled it. With all respect to Mr. Ware I would rather have that one than all of his; not to mention one or two others that I have seen, of yours I mean.
I am minded to write you a little something about what we have been doing. I am not at all disappointed in the general purpose of my visit to Oxford. When I last saw you, you expressed a wish that I might find this year all that I expected; and I had it in mind to say that I could not very well expect less than I was doing. In point of fact, I was sure of just one thing that I wanted, before I came, of one subject that I wished to pursue here I mean; and I have been fortunate enough to find more than I expected. The English philology course of Professor Napier is elementary he says, but it is all the year four times a week, and embodies material that would have required several years of special reading on my part with the limited time I have. It is a familiar general outline, but so thoroughly filled in that it answers my purpose very well. Then it happened that Dr. Sweet had just been appointed to a University position, and I took advantage of the opportunity to find out directly from himself what he means by much that he has written, by joining his class in phonetics; and again I am finding there exactly
what I wished. It is interesting, but a matter to be expected to find that he has changed his opinions about many things in his books; and no doubt he will be ready with new editions as soon as he has sold off the old ones to us. He is curious, hesitating, shortsighted, kindhearted, half-humorous, middle-aged gentleman; and is as new to the business of teaching, apparently, as if he were in his twenties; not that it makes much difference at Oxford where be great scholars, doubtless, but some of the poorest teachers I have ever seen, and I have seen several. Napier, however, is a teacher as well as a scholar, I doubt if his equal as a teacher or a man can be found here; and Americans generally seem to be of that opinion. He assumes no false dignity with his classes, but is one of those who make you feel at home with him whether he is lecturing to you or cycling with you in a bundle of old overcoats on one of the coldest days in winter. In America we should call him a Westerner of the finest type. Professor J. Wright would almost do for Westerner of the rough and ready type; I have not seen much of him, but in fifteen minutes I felt well acquainted. Those three, Sweet, Napier, and Wright, are the men I like best as men; and I think it is because of their utter lack of self-consciousness.
I am not trying to stick to my subject, but I will go on to say that in addition to these important subjects for me, I actually took in the first term all the English offered, just to see what it was like, and two courses besides. That of itself is an emphatic comment on the status of English at Oxford; I did it in fifteen hours a week. But I found little except the language and phonetics that I care to continue; one interesting course in criticism by A.J. Carlile I shall follow further. If it were not for the freedom from the responsibility I should not be getting much rest; but the taking off of that load makes a wonderful difference; and for the rest I take exercise, walking or riding as nearly two hours a day as I can. I suppose that I ought not to attempt so much in the year, but as I cannot come again, it is all on the principle of now or never. I hope to be able
to relax a little as the weather grows pleasanter. We have scarcely seen the sun since October, since September for that matter, but it has not been cold except for a day or two at a time, and then only a little below freezing.
Mrs. Hopkins is employing her time as fully as I am. There is no housekeeping, as we supposed there would be, and as the University is open to women with few restrictions, also an unexpected thing, she is making the most of the opportunity. We are both well, though both feeling something of the effect of the climate, which is anything but bracing; in fact Oxford is not a particularly healthful place for people who are not well to begin with
I think that this is as disconnected an epistle as I ever wrote in my life; doubtless the effect of reaction from what I am writing every day about "how not to be disconnected," or else because when I began I did not think I had time to write a letter. I get the general Lawrence news, but little or nothing of inner University affairs, perhaps because few of my correspondents are in the Council. From the binds I see in the Journal I am fed to think this must be a rather lively year. I seem not to have outgrown my feeling of responsibility with regard to the WEEKLY matter. I hope that I may live to see the day when to express difference of opinion and to "roast" do not necessarily mean the same thing in the place where I happen to be living; but I sometimes doubt that I shall.
Prof. L, L. Dyche has been called to Ambur, Kan., on account of the serious illness of his brother Wilson.
Sincerely yours,
EDWIN M. HOPKINS.
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