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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoped that all tendency to follow the examples of Oxford and Cambridge, by university systems, will be resisted at Harvard. Those are not the examples for a progressive American university to follow. The German university system, with its academic freedom - freedom on the part of the instructors to teach how and as they please; freedom on the part of the students to learn what best suits them - furnishes rather the model for Harvard to follow. Indeed, the tendencies of Harvard are in this direction, and we believe the time is not so very far distant when the students of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1882 | See Source »

...second question, 'Why not teach boys as well as young women to cook?' drew forth the response that the lecturer heartily approved of such a plan, and had actually taught a class at Harvard." - [From a report of a lecture by Miss Parloa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/25/1882 | See Source »

...wish," he remarked, "that you should follow the schoolboy method. I shall not teach you anything, nor do I expect you to learn anything. I, too, am a man and a snob. Do you manage to make out the connection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CLOTHES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...teach a joy and sorrow more divine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POET'S OFFICE. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

When you shall teach me with gladness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DREAMS. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

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