Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Radcliffe College. Lectures on Kindergarten Principles and Methods. V. Froebel's Idea of Imitation. Miss Laura Fisher. Fay House...
...idea of ranging the nines as far as possible in order of excellence and constituting what reminds one of a spelling class contest, is a clever one. Under such an arrangement if any team retires after the series has begun, each of the others will simply move up a peg and the competition will continue as before. Moreover, the plan is so novel that it promises to prove an attraction in itself, and so help to make the series popular and increase its usefulness as a training school...
Before the Nineteenth Century, history in France had not succeeded in establishing itself as a distinct style of writing. It had existed only as a vehicle for the advancement of some idea. At the end of the Nineteenth Century erudition was flourishing. Erudition, however, is not history; but merely prepares the way for history and makes it possible. It was romanticism that animated and enlivened the writing of history in France...
...this instance. In regard to the future of the Department it is felt that a training in architecture, as in other professions, should in most cases preferably come after the gaining of a degree, and that it should be more of a Graduate Department. It is with the idea of encouraging men to take an academic course first, that many courses prescribed for the student of architecture coincide with a number offered in the elective pamphlet. Thus if the college course is carefully planned with that end in view it is possible to graduate in Architecture in three years after...
...Froebel's Idea of Imitation...