Word: originally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description of the globe in respect of all matters: Rise, extent and fall of ancient empires; chronology as low as the fall of the Roman Empire; present state of the world; origin of the present States and Kingdoms-their extent, power, commerce, religions and customs; modern chronology." This was history with an ancient and geographical basis, but with a modern political outlook. It was a highly creditable course-the best that the writer has found in the annals of any American college-at that...
...Harvard, as elsewhere, the best practical teachers have evolved from the tutorial system. If one looks backward through Harvard catalogues for a period of thirty-five or forty years, he will discover that the present academic staff is largely of tutorial origin. From Dr. Peabody and President Eliot, who began their official connection with the college-the first in 1832, the second in 1854-both as tutors of mathematics, down to the most recent appointments of instructors and assistant professors, this statement will in general hold tone. Harvard, founded to 'advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity' has always remained...
...very interesting and valuable pamphlet on the "The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities" has recently been published by the Burean of Education, at Washington. The main object of the publication is to trace the origin of the study of history at the various centers of learning in this country and to show the importance of the political and narrative history of the United States to the college faculties. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and University of Michigan have been taken as the representative colleges for men in the United States. The following is an extract from the chapter...
...meeting of the Zoological Club to night, Mr. W. F. Ganong will present a paper on the "Origin of the Acadian Fauna." The east door of the museum will be open from 7.15 till...
...college of which most of the students here are ignorant, strike the reader forcibly, and more honest, unprejudiced criticism is crammed in a few pages than has appeared in print for many a day. The last few pages of the number are devoted to a study of the origin of "The Treadmill in America" and minor topics, original documents, notes...