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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Francis Parkman as a constitutional conservative represents almost the exact opposite of Phillips the reformer. The later years of Parkman showed that feeling of dissatisfaction and disappointment belonging to the conservative, while the youth of a reformer is a source of sunshine for his old...
...work for the new candidates will for a while be very light. After Christmas the old members will join the squad and hard work will begin...
...instructors. The work for the first few years was carried on in a private house on Appian Way; but when the classes had quickly outgrown these small quarters, the society took advantage of the offer of Miss Maria Denny Fay to secure the building they have since occupied,- the old Fay House...
Justin Winsor then read a brief address. He dwelt chiefly on the relation of Francis Parkman to the old and new schools of historical study. Mr. Parkman began his life work when Sparks, Prescott and Bancroft were still on the field. The characteristic of the old school, of which these historians were the most prominent exponents, was the sacrifice of strict historical accuracy in every detail to an elaborate literary finish. Francis Parkman was the forerunner of a school by which historical integrity is regarded as absolutely necessary. He showed that it is possible to combine honesty of citation with...
...newspaper articles would give the impression that some change will be noticeable from the old state of affairs to the new. This, however, is not the case. For years the Annex has followed the courses of Harvard College, and all instruction has been given by professors and instructors of Harvard. The same plan will be pursued when the Annex changes its name; and the only apparent difference will be in the degree. Hitherto the Society for the Collegiate instruction of Women has been able to give nothing beyond a certificate stating that the graduate has performed the work required...