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Erskine, John, 1879-1951, American educator, author, and musician, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A., 1900; Ph.D., 1903). He taught first at Amherst (1903-9) and then at Columbia, becoming professor of English in 1916. Among his many works on literature and music are The Literary Discipline (1923), The Delight of Great Books (1928), and What Is Music? (1944); he also edited scholarly works and served as coeditor of The Cambridge History of American Literature. He is best known for his delightful, satiric novels based on legend, including The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925) and Galahad (1926). In his late 40s he began appearing as a concert pianist and from 1928 to 1937 was president of the Juilliard School of Music.

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See his autobiographical The Memory of Certain Persons (1947), My Life as a Writer (1951), and My Life in Music (1950, repr. 1973).

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"Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline."

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."

"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."

"Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them."

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John Erskine (October 5, 1879 – June 2, 1951) was a U.S. educator and author, born in New York City and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey.[1] He graduated from Columbia University (A.M., 1901; Ph. D., 1903).

Professor Erskine was employed at Columbia and Amherst. He instituted Columbia College's General Honors Course, a two-year undergraduate seminar that would later help inspire "Masterworks of Western Literature," now known commonly as "Literature Humanities," the second component of Columbia College's Core Curriculum.

Erskine Place, a street in the New York City borough of The Bronx, was named after him.

Erskine was also the author of numerous publications, including:

  • The Elizabethan Lyric (1903)
  • Selections from the Faerie Queene (1905)
  • Actœon and Other Poems (1907)
  • Leading American novelists (1910)
  • Written English, with Helen Erskine (1910; revised edition, 1913)
  • Selections from the Idylls of the King (1912)
  • The Kinds of Poetry (1913)
  • Poems of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, with W. P. Trent (1914)
  • The Moral Obligation of the Intelligent, and Other Essays (1915)
  • The Shadowed Hour (1917)
  • Democracy and Ideals (1920)
  • The Little Disciple (1923)
  • Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925)
  • Sonata (1925)
  • Galahad (1926)
  • Adam And Eve (1927)
  • American Character (1927)
  • Prohibition And Christianity, And Other Paradoxes (1927)
  • The Delight Of Great Books (1928)
  • Penelope's Man (1928)
  • Sincerity (1929)
  • Uncle Sam In The Eyes Of His Family (1930)
  • Cinderella's Daughter, And Other Sequels And Consequences (1930)
  • The Brief Hour Of Francois Villon (1937)
  • The Start Of The Road (1938)

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  1. ^ John Erskine biography at The Weehawken Time Machine
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