Word: nineteenths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spoke of the three great masters in the three great periods of the school's life.- Cheever in the seventeenth century, Lovell in the eighteenth, and Gardner in the nineteenth. The school was the teacher of many of the most prominent men of the country. Within its walls John Hancock learned to trace the name which stands first among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Here were educated the Adamses, Paul Revere, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Emerson, Beecher, President Eliot, and a host of men who have stamped themselves on the minds of men. The speaker declared himself...
...Departure in College Education" is the title of a pamphlet from the press of Scribner's Sons, New York, containing the reply of President McCosh to the views advanced by President Eliot at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club. The paper is ably written, and will, at a later date, be briefly reviewed in these columns...
...current discussion aroused by President Eliot's speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, President Webb of New York University, and Pres. White of Cornell represented the extreme elements in the two wings of the party which is opposed to President Eliot's radical views. How little unanimity exists between the two wings is shown by the following quotations from the two Presidents...
...stand midway between the two extremes as represented by Dr. McCosh and President Eliot. I cannot indorse the elective system as President Eliot expounds and defends it, for his position seems to me open to many of the objections which Dr. McCosh urged at the recent meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club. For instance, it is true that under a system of complete election, a student may get a degree for the study of music, the French drama similar dilettante branches, although it is, perhaps, true that a student who pursues this course would get about as much good from...
...being novel and as representing a too fast movement. I want to point out the fact that Harvard College has been too conservative and slow. Years ago it was pointed out that Harvard College must be changed from a school of the eighteenth century to a university of the nineteenth century. It is nearly twenty years since the elective system was adopted at the college, and it has been sixty years during which we have been developing elective studies, only finishing our work last June. The course of events shows that there is to be a real university at Cambridge...