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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nature and spirit, a new birth of university life. President Eliot formed here, at his accession, many survivors of a group of men of distinguished talents and learning, who gave wide fame to the institution, and had striven in its Faculty for a generation to lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride...
...time when President Eliot came into office other institutions than Harvard were beginning to provide means for the higher learning. It is obvious that, if Harvard had failed to keep abreast with this movement her prestige as the leading seat of learning in the land would have been gone. The npbuilding of the Graduate School has been for this reason, the most important development of the University in which President Eliot has taken a leading part...
...most important advances which he has directed have been the more complete introduction of the elective system and the establishment of large resources for higher learning. In 1869, out of the one hundred and twenty-eight courses of instruction offered in the academic department, thirty-four were prescribed; now out of seven hundred and twenty only nine are prescribed. Weaknesses the elective system undoubtedly has,- weaknesses that are never to be overlooked, and yet the evil of the system is far less than its good. It places before every student the opportunity of enlarging himself where the fullest growth...
DEUTSCHER VEREIN.- Open meeting, Thursday, May 10, at 8 p. m., D. U. Rooms, Palmer street, second door from the corner of Brattle street. Professor Munsterberg will speak on "Thought Transference." All members of German 2, 3, 4, and higher courses are cordially invited...
DEUTSCHER VEREIN.- Open meeting, Thursday, May 10, at 8 p. m., D. U. Rooms, Palmer street, second door from the corner of Brattle street. Professor Munsterberg will speak on "Thought Transference." All members of German 2, 3, 4, and higher courses are cordially invited...