Masculinity and Harvard Comp

If I ever get back to the point where I am going to tackle a project on gender and the first Harvard writing course, I might take a look at:

"Rhetoric for the Meritocracy: The Creation of Composition at Harvard (1976)" by Wallace Douglas. See The Norton Book of Composition Studies, p. 74)

Also:

Godkin, E.L. "The Illiteracy of American Boys." Educational Review 8 (1897): 1-9.