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...study of history in some form, biblical or classical, may have been introduced into the curriculum of Yale College in its earliest years; but the first formal recognition of the subject was "the appointment of President Stiles to a professorship of ecclesiastical history in 1778. He held his professership till his death-in 1795-and after him it was held by Professor Kingsley from 1805 to 1817. There is abundant evidence that his interpretation of the field of ecclesiastical history was a very wide one; it was simply that he, an ecclesiastic, taught general history. I should be very loath...
...earliest account of the course pursued at Harvard College is in a tract called 'New England's First Fruits' originally published in 1643, in which we find that one hour a week on Saturday afternoon's during the winter, is set aside for the study of history, the same amount of time during the summer being given up to the study of nature. There is no reason for believing that the standing of history in the curriculum of Harvard College was very much improved for two centuries after these scholastic Foundations. It was not until the year 1839 that...
Will you be good enough to call and see me at your earliest convenience to arrange for the taking of your own photograph...
...while every student is acquainted with the undergraduate parts and the CRIMSON - for facts, such as the boat race of the undergraduate day - the authority of the book, has already made the readers of this familiar with much retold in this volume. The frontispiece is a facsimile of the earliest existing record of the college - ; another facsimile; a photogravure of the original charter of Harvard, dating "the one and thirtieth day of the third month called May, 1650," is given, and two views of the yard in 1821, after Alvan Fisher, complete the illustrations...
...carefully grouped - as usual - on the last days of the college year; obviously to keep men in Cambridge to the utmost end of the term - why, oh, why should this be? The editorial mind confesses to entertaining in its simplicity the opinion that undergraduates who finish their examinations earliest might better go home to loaf than make life doubly hideous with the revelry of their rejoicing for the unlucky wretch whose examinations are packed into the last few days...