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...constant demands of those students studying chemistry here for instruction in the science of Metallurgy have led the department to provide such a course. Furnaces for the essay of the simplest ores of gold and silver will be set up in the basement of the new addition to the museum, and will be ready for use at the beginning of next year...
...Harvard chemical laboratories are intended only for instruction in theoretical chemistry; it has never before been attempted here to teach the industrial department of the science, so that this new course may be said to open a new field. The popular desire will doubtless force the college continually to enlarge upon this department...
...recent meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, the subject of the teaching of pedagogues in colleges was discussed. After a number of prominent educators had expressed their views, all declaring that pedagogy could and should be taught in colleges, President Eliot spoke as follows...
...glad to hear that the demand for increased accommodations for the classes in Chemistry A, will be temporarily met by the removal of the mineralogical cabinet to the new section of the Agassiz Museum. The change has been long needed, and the new arrangement will no doubt for a time satisfy the urgency. Ultimately, however, even the present accommodations will grow too small, and then a new building will be in order. Boylston Hall is certainly fast becoming out of date and inadequate. Already some inconvenience is felt in the laboratory accommodations and this is bound to increase with every...
...outside. So in the twenty years I have been at Harvard I have seen the whole method of teaching Latin and Greek changed-fundamentally changed-as I believe to the enormous advantage of the men who both study and study and teach these languages. It is by developing new methods of teaching subjects that colleges make teachers best equipped for their work. To turn to another subject: How long have our own men been systematically trained for the profession of pedagogy? How few I will not venture to say. Is teaching a profession, when the majority of teachers are elected...