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...authorized by the Dean to make the following correction in the Catalogue for 1873-74: on page 86, line 7, after "Modern Languages," insert "History...
...departments of History and Political Science the committee consider as well taught. Modern languages are not treated of as fully as could be desired. The committee, however, have recognized what may well be considered the great bane of this department, namely, the number of students who elect them for a "soft thing." This evil in the French studies has in a great measure been done away with by the acuteness and good sense of the Professor, but we fear that, especially in the Sophomore electives, these studies are pursued with little effort, and the benefit derived by the student...
...report wisely remarks, a general education "instead of being less, is more necessary for men designed for certain callings." It quotes Mr. Agassiz's advice to young men professing to be naturalists, namely, to pass first through college, giving "full scope to literary studies, whether in ancient or modern tongues, to moral and intellectual philosophy, to the moral and social history of mankind, and to pure mathematics." This report is recommended to the attention of any who desire to go back of the outward form, and understand the principles that are at work in making Harvard University what...
...other powerful schools which exercise a very general influence. These are directed by priests and sisters of charity, and are called Christian, as if the others were not. I leave you to judge what instruction or notion of education men can give who are the avowed enemies of the modern spirit of progress, that spirit which has taken for its motto, liberty, enlightenment, progress. If I have in any degree been successful in my endeavors, you should now have a clear idea of the state of public instruction in France and of the manner in which it is given. Without...
This limitation may be a good one year after year in class, but it does not appear so clearly reasonable when made to check those who may wish in any particular year to offer a greater number of modern languages and afterwards to pursue other studies...