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...entire energies to the Harvard Law School. As a student he first came in touch with the case system under its noted originator, Professor Langdell. A year after his graduation from the School he was appointed Assistant Professor of Law and became the leading expositor of the case method, which has now invaded the whole country. In 1877 he received a full professorship and for the last 15 years of his life was Dean. His knowledge of all branches of the law was profound. He taught at various times at least half of the courses which were given...
...facts; and thus there would be none of the duplication of work, which at present makes so many lectures seem unprofitable. This result could be more easily obtained if all prescribed reading were done and tested before, instead of after, the lectures covering the same ground. Until some such method is adopted, by which lecturers may be enabled to tell their students things of real value to them, the undergraduate attitude with regard to the cutting of certain courses can not be considered wholly unreasonable...
...gradually dwindled and disappeared. A course counting for a degree would undoubtedly be well attended and would materially benefit those who took it, but as it could not, from its very nature, be made compulsory, it would naturally fail to reach the entire student body. There are two methods, however, by which all students could be reached,--through English A, or by an entrance test in reading. The former method seems perhaps the more feasible, and there is considerable spare time in the recitations in English A, which might very properly be devoted to practice in reading. But whether through...
...undersigned earnestly commend to the members of Harvard University the building enterprise of the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Association. We believe that a substantial contribution from them would be a desirable method of expressing the University's interest in the educational and civic work which the Association is doing for the people of Cambridge...
...calculated to bring very satisfactory results. There is nothing, of course, to prevent anyone from laying out his work to suit himself, but experience proves that the majority of undergraduates are incapable of spreading it out judiciously, and leave everything until the last minute. Such an irregular method of work in any line of endeavor must necessarily prove unsatisfactory and inefficient...