I was obliged to tell them that under existing circumstances it would be the height of imprudence. Oi the seven thousand grad uate students now working in American universities there are surely three hundred who are making history their main subject (too often, alas, their only subject) of attention; in 1884 it is doubtful if there were more than thirty.

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