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...results of his studies, some of which are as yet unpublished. He differs from many others in his classification, and in regarding sponges as individuals not as colonies. A sponge is essentially a globular sieve with the meshes prolonged into a labyrinth of minute tubes. Contrary to the general belief, sponges breathe by means of their outer layer. The inner layer consists of small cells armed with whips which create a current to draw in the small water animals which form its food. Between these two is another layer, which secretes the chalky, or horny, spicules which form the skeleton...
...held his professership till his death-in 1795-and after him it was held by Professor Kingsley from 1805 to 1817. There is abundant evidence that his interpretation of the field of ecclesiastical history was a very wide one; it was simply that he, an ecclesiastic, taught general history. I should be very loath to say that this professorship was the first introduction of history into our curriculum: but I do not know that the earlier stages of its career have ever been traced...
...proper equipment he raised a considerable sum of money. No system of historical instruction is more efficient than that which combines voluntary reading with required work and with suggestive lectures. The best elements of the old and new methods of historical training have been happily united at Yale. The general plan of European history specializing as it does upon modern Europe and the Constitutional history of England, impresses a student of methods in teaching as one of the most sensible, solid, and practically useful now in operation...
...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 a training school for pastors and teachers. It has always recruited its professors chiefly from the tutorial ranks. Its record of academic service affords striking evidence in favor of professorial appointments upon the basis...