Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard to find specimens of the genus man with more unlike characteristics than the German and the American university student. So fundamental is this difference that it reaches back into the years before he goes to the university. Our American boy make up his mind that he must do hard and faithful work in school from his sixteenth to his eighteenth year, in order that he may enter the college of his choice, free from all conditions. On an average the American schoolboy at this age is earnest, persevering, and sincere in his work. His dissipations, if wholesome...
...entire course was given up to a variety of required studies for the purpose of general culture, the latter part of the curriculum opened the way to specialization by offering elective courses in which the student might work out his natural bent. In point of age the average American student in a first-class college is further advanced at the end of his sophomore year than the average German student when he enters the University from the gymnasium. The actual facts in the American college situations were clearly seen at Columbia College and in the University of Michigan...
Columbia College, in New York, may fairly claim the honor of being the first American institution in America to recognize history as worthy of a professional chair. The institution was founded, as King's College, under the royal patronage of George II. in the year 1754. Arrangements appear to have been made in the original faculty of arts for the teaching of law and history...
After the Revolution, Columbia College, having dropped its royal name and patron as well as its Tory president and Tory professors of history, took a fresh start under American auspices. An old broadside, preserved in the Columbia Library, contains the statutes of the college for 1785 and a "Plan of Education," whereby it appears that history was first taught in what was then a unique way for America. The Rev. John Gross, Professor of German and Geography, from 1784 to 1795, taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description...
...subject in his professorship betrays a survival of the old scholastic connection between metaphysics and politics, a connection which lasted long at Harvard, Columbia and many other colleges. There is a valuable and suggestive idea in Lieber's first combination of history and politics which ought to influence all American colleges and Universities in the proper co-ordination of these studies. If, for economic or other reasons, there must be a grouping of various subjects under one administrative head, history ought rather to be yoked with political science than with language, literature or philosophy. The nature of history and political...