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Modern knowledge has placed at the historian's command a host of new tools, the sciences of psychology, economics, geography, sociology, and the employment of these tends always in the direction of adding importance and significance to a study which formerly was the concern mainly of the antiquarian and the propagandist of patriotism. It is a question whether the faculty at Harvard has made the fullest possible use of these tools. Certainly eminent although some of its individual names undoubtedly are, there is at the University no thriving school of modern investigators, and most of its great achievements have been...
...Meeting at Worcester, Mass., the American Antiquarian Society celebrated the acquisition of 3,821 bound volumes, 9,755 pamphlets and 1,137 engravings, broadsides and maps, and also elected Calvin Coolidge to membership in its learned ranks. Other U. S. Presidents who have been members of the Society: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson...
...first volume of the history Professor Channing set forth his purposes to which these new volumes will conform. It is his intention to depart from the antiquarian methods of considering each occurrence for itself. Unity has so characterized all that is American that the inter-relation of events cannot be ignored...
...Connell-Ginsberg Antiquarian Expedition to Rome has brought back a manuscript of great importance to scholars and rubbish mongers. It is none other than an ancient Hearstissimus newspaper, yellow with age and other contributing causes. From its pages is taken the following contemporary is taken the following contemporary account of the combat between Aeneas and Turnus, which proves that Virgil garbled the facts in Book XII of the "Aeneid...
...application of medical science to historical research has already given birth to one fascinating volume. The maladies of Henry VIII, however, have little but antiquarian interest. A more fertile field for investigation offers itself in--contemporary history. If it is true that Napolean lost the battle of Waterloo because, of a stomach-ache it can doubtless be proved that Hindenburg was suffering heart-burns when his famous line was smashed. And in American political life things have come to such a pass that the old stock alibis are quite ineffective; but by replacing them with pleas of wholesale dyspepsia...