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"The annual reports of President Eliot of Harvard always contain suggestive reading for those who are interested in the advance and improvement of teaching, as well as in teaching itself. The constant effort to seek out and put into practice better methods of instruction, or methods more in keeping with...
One of the present concerns of the college is naturally to secure good teaching for those who may desire to take entrance examinations in science instead of in one of the classics. It is well, therefore, to note President Eliot's attitude on this question. He says, "A serious difficulty...
As late as 1817 a Hebrew, oration was annually delivered at Harvard. Prof. Edward J. Young, formerly of Cambridge, has given (in a paper before the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 1880), some amusing illustrations of the difficulty experienced in teaching Hebrew at Harvard in old colonial days. For instance, Michael...
The Law school is now in a position of great strength. It has a well-high perfect building, a well-chosen library, which is steadily increased and improved, hard working and competent teachers in the prime of their powers, an enthusiastic body of students, and a large number of loyal...
The pleasing news that Yale is breaking from her Chrysalis state as "a college" into "the higher life" of the university is now supplemented by the report that for some time the university has been busying herself in the acquisition of new lands and buildings with the purpose of enlarging...