Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...Cooke; but this is unavoidable, and there remains no ground for complaint. But it is very easy to criticise, and somewhat ungracious, perhaps, at the present time. We can only say that the Elective Pamphlet in general displays the same merits and demerits as did its predecessor of last year...
...times. So that however original an instructor's notion about the Classics, for instance, may be, he has at least a foundation to stand upon. Not so in German. Here every new instructor has, or thinks he has, for a year or more to undo the work of his predecessor; for another year to try his own experiments; and any thing like a system is adopted only after he has had a course or a class for at least two years. This is, in substance, the history of German instruction in Harvard. And precisely herein is found the explanation...