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...necessity of some action and the failure of the first attempt he continues: "The best thing to be done, therefore was to collect as many colleges as possible and see what could be done. The conference was called, and, after much debate, the resolutions were adopted. The method of consideration was of attack, and apparently every contingency was provided for. The definition of professional was tacitly understood not to be the common one, but a graded distinction of ordinary professionals by which those who teach for a living are not excluded, but it reaches those who give public exhibitions...
...impetus given to the study of Latin by the application of the historical method and by the study of inscriptions, by Minton Warren...
...Russia, the Irish land agitation, or Bismarck's imperial policy in Germany. It has been said that every man is most ignorant of the period in history immediately preceding that in which he lives. It would be the purpose of this course to train the student in a proper method of historical estimates of recent events. No more excellent discipline in historical studies could be devised than such a one as this...
...universally conceded that a course to be successful must inspire men with a live interest in the subject it treats,-an interest sufficient to lead them to attend regularly and to devote to it at least a fair amount of work. The old method of conducting half courses, by which two lours of recitations per week were held throughout the entire year, was certainly a failure when viewed in this light. And in truth this was only a natural result. Aside from the lack of interest which was due to the intervale between the recitations, every man felt that such...
Such courses as these have now proved themselves in every sense a success, as, for instance, shown by History II. and Philosophy II. At the last lecture in Philosophy II., Prof. James expressed himself as greatly pleased with the new method by which the course was now conducted, both from the work accomplished and the interest manifested, and other similar statements show the same feeling among the faculty. With such precedents as these, it seems most advisable that the old method be done away with altogether and all the remaining half-courses brought into conformity with the new. When...