Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Barrett Wendell will contribute the leading article in the March Monthly. Its subject will be "The Harvard Undergraduate...
This evening in Upper Boylston, Professor Cooke will give the third of his illustrated lectures. He will take for his subject. "Rome," and his descriptions of the noted buildings and spots of interest in this celebrated city will, doubtless, be of the same entertaining and instructive nature which has marked the two previous lectures of the course. The views which will be shown are of so varied a character that no student at all interested in the art or history of ancient or modern Rome can afford to miss this lecture...
...other works, Dr. Agassiz has given out two volumes on the "Cruise of the Blake," and one volume of Prof. Ernst Ehler's "Deep Sea Florida Annelids" has gone to press. This last work has been long expected, and is said to be the most exhaustive treatment of the subject yet written...
...given the right to vote, they ought certainly to be given instructions which will fit them to perform their duties as citizens. Naturally a knowledge of American institutions and of American history is of the first consequence, yet we find but scanty provision for instruction in these two subjects. In two out of fourteen selected colleges for women, it was found that American history had no assigned place; in three, one course in it is given; in four, two courses; in three, three courses, and in two, Cornell and Michigan, four courses. "In eight of the fourteen institutions referred...
...works relating to other authors-now under Biography and Bibliography; placing the works which treat of any author after the works written by him. The object of this last change is to bring the Latin and Greek authors and the church Fathers from their anomalous position in the subject catalogue to their natural position in the author catalogue...