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Often people, some students, some parents, write to me inquiring whether a genuine education still is to be obtained somewhere or other in these United States. I reply that although there exists no perfect university or college, this being a bent world, nevertheless I can commend certain departments and even certain institutions.

For anybody desiring to study English literature at any level, I recommend that department at Vanderbilt University. Ever since the days of the Fugitives and the Agrarians, Vanderbilt’s professors of literature have been first-rate; and the department seems unabashedly Christian, too.

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Often people, some students, some parents, write to me inquiring whether a genuine education still is to be obtained somewhere or other in these United States. I reply that although there exists no perfect university or college, this being a bent world, nevertheless I can commend certain departments and even certain institutions.

For anybody desiring to study English literature at any level, I recommend that department at Vanderbilt University. Ever since the days of the Fugitives and the Agrarians, Vanderbilt’s professors of literature have been first-rate; and the department seems unabashedly Christian, too.