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The last Tech has a long editorial on the advantages and disadvantages of the purchase of the M. I. T. by Harvard. It says, "On carefully going over all the ground it seems to us that the only advantage of any real practical value would be the increased amount of...
To Professor Wheeler is due the system of a working library for his classes and for its proper equipment he raised a considerable sum of money. No system of historical instruction is more efficient than that which combines voluntary reading with required work and with suggestive lectures. The best elements...
"In what has been said hitherto, the writer has endeavored to describe the work of the earlier representatives of the historical department at Harvard rather than the courses given by the present generation of teachers. Justice to contemporaries requires at least a brief review of the present condition of the...
"Jared Sparks' professorship at Harvard was epoch-making for American history rather than for historical teaching. It was understood from the outset that his chief energy was to be expended in lectures to the senior and junior classes. He himself says of his appointment: 'Mr. Quincy said it was not...
Mr. Williams, '88, for the negative, said that of all prejudices, the religious ones are the bitterest, most vindictive and tenacious. He repudiated the attacks made by the affirmative on the baneful influence of the Catholic church and clergy, the assertion that Catholic parochial schools would be disloyal, utterly false...