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Professor Torrey, after graduating, spent four months in teaching. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840, but at once returned to teaching. He was tutor at Harvard during the years 1844-1848, and was made McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History in 1856. Professor...
Universities, as I understand them, are not absolutely essential to the teaching of professions. Let me make an extreme supposition. A great naval commander, like Nelson, is sent on board ship at eleven or twelve; his previous knowledge or general training is what you may suppose for that age. It...
Wednesday's Advertiser contains an exceedingly interesting article on "Political Economy at Harvard," being an argument for the extension of the subject in the college by added electives and a plea for aid to the university for making this improvement. Political economy, the writer claims, is the most popular study...
The university degree, when first conferred in the literary institutions of mediaeval Europe, is said to have been merely a certificate of proficiency or license to teach. Since then, college education has vastly developed and departed widely from its original standards, so that now a college degree contains in formal...
"Can you tell me any reason why the base ball team should be allowed to compete with professionals, and still retain its standing, while if an amateur athlete enters with a professional his standing as such is forever lost? If we were entirely to ignore professional assistance, why should we...