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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large increase in the number of students seeking an education at some one of the various schools connected with the University, and the additions to the scholarship fund for indigent students arising from the Greenleaf bequest, are the chief points to be noticed in the new Harvard Catalogue. That Harvard University is becoming more and more a veritable centre of learning, is easily seen when the number of students connected with the institution during the college years of 1886-87 and 1887-88 are compared, showing an attendance during the former year of 1688 to 1812 for the present year...
...young fellow is left to his own resources for the first time. The freedom which he enjoys is much greater than that accorded to the students even in our most advanced and liberal colleges in America. The authorities exert absolutely no control over his actions or his studies-chief of all,-there are no parietal regulations. The result can more readily be imagined than described. Parents do not expect their sons to do anything but drink and loaf during the first year at the University-and their expectations are fully reached. The young fellows who wish...
...Gurney, in 1886, is left entirely in the hands of younger Harvard. Into better or worthier hands this could not have fallen. For years some of the young professors have been in training for their present responsibilities. Indeed, for a long time before the recent transition was made, the chief burden of practical teaching had begun to rest upon men like Professors Macvane, Emerton, Young and Doctors Hart and Channing. They had already introduced new courses and new methods of illustration, so that gradually the historical department was being transformed...
...Professor Sparks' regime belongs the institution of historical requirements for admission to the freshman class. In 1846 occurs the first mention of a matriculation examination by the historical department in Ancient History and Geography. Since 1846 these two studies have continued to be the chief requirements of the historical department for admission to the college. In 1886 the history of England and the United States was proposed as a possible substitute for Greek and Roman history...
...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 proposed that I should have anything to do in the way of teaching by recitation from books, occasional examinations and lectures were proposed. For anything else I am not responsible. Let the tutor drill the boys.' Every college professor of history will sympathize with Mr. Sparks' view and be glad...