Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish in another column a report of a lecture on "Contemporaneous History," which seems to show that the faculty has at last adopted our suggestions of last year on this subject. We hope this lecture may be the first of a series. A lecture on the present political condition of Germany or England would be very acceptable to the college, especially in view of the present strained relations between the European powers...
...growth of historical studies at Harvard College is a subject of special educational interest, for it illustrates a process of academic development which is now in progress throughout the country at large. This process marks the rise of modern studies, as distinguished, on the one hand, from classic humanism, our inheritance from the Renaissance, and, on the other, from theological training, our inheritance from the Middle Ages...
...field of American history. Although Cornell was the first institution in America to establish a special chair for this branch of historical instruction, the most important to Americans, Harvard was the first to bring American history into decided prominence by the encouragement of original lectures upon this subject by Professor Sparks...
...follows: President, L. McK. Garrison, '88; vice-president, M. D. Mitchell, '87; secretary, F. D. Kalapothakes, '88. It is intended to keep the number of members at about fifty. Meetings are held once a fortnight, and on each evening a paper is read on some literary or political subject; or a lecture is delivered. It is expected that all conversations will be carried on in French, and if any questions are to be asked they must be clothed in the prescribed language. After the lecture or reading, the meeting adjourns, and a slight lunch is offered of crackers, cheese...
...take great pleasure in being able to print the following from a letter of Mr. Justin Winsor on a subject which may be of interest to men who are looking for employment on leaving college...