Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...signature has not passed into the domain of antiquarian curiosity; it has not been picked up for an old song, to be resold for a large sum at a literary auction; nor have we to trace its history from one person to another, as best we can, during a period of two centuries and a half, because it is to day in the same custody to which it was committed the moment the ink was dry from the pens of the brothers Harvard...
...sophomore year than the average German student when he enters the University from the gymnasium. The actual facts in the American college situations were clearly seen at Columbia College and in the University of Michigan, and it was determined to mediate between the gymnastic period and the graduate period of study by making the latter part of the college course a natural transition to the University. At Columbia this process of specialization is allowed to begin at the end of the junior year; in Ann Arbor at the end of the sophomore year. Harvard has deliberately converted her entire curriculum...
...Kingdoms-their extent, power, commerce, religions and customs; modern chronology." This was history with an ancient and geographical basis, but with a modern political outlook. It was a highly creditable course-the best that the writer has found in the annals of any American college-at that early period. It savored, however, more of German than of English origin. John Gross, professor of German and Geography, evidently represents a European current in American college instruction. Side by side with historicogeographical studies at Columbia ran the old scholastic course in Greek and Roman antiquities, which had probably been taught from...
...Sadi-Carnot. His advice was followed and the crisis was safely over. France had passed safely through the danger which had always before overthrown the Republic. The fact that this happened gives us great confidence that France has outgrown her instability, and has at last reached a settled period of national prosperity...
...Harvard, as elsewhere, the best practical teachers have evolved from the tutorial system. If one looks backward through Harvard catalogues for a period of thirty-five or forty years, he will discover that the present academic staff is largely of tutorial origin. From Dr. Peabody and President Eliot, who began their official connection with the college-the first in 1832, the second in 1854-both as tutors of mathematics, down to the most recent appointments of instructors and assistant professors, this statement will in general hold tone. Harvard, founded to 'advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity' has always remained...