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...change in the course of study only gradually gained recognition and adoption. Professor Ticknor labored long in advancing the system, and Professor Longfellow, holding to his methods, aided the reform as it gradually gained ground. From 1825 to 1839 the system was unceasingly agitated. In 1839 the required classical work was restricted to the freshman class. This was a great advance, and from this time on the system grew more rapidly into favor. In 1841 it was officially announced that the new system of election had greatly improved the scholarship of the students, and additional privileges were allowed. President Sparks...
Ralph Waldo Emerson entered the freshman class, in his fourteenth year, in 1817. Dr. Kirkland was then president of the university and Edward Everett professor of Greek literature. Among the other professors were Edward Channing and Ticknor. Emerson was greatly influenced throughout his course by the inspiration which Ticknor brought to the university. Among Emerson's classmates, were Upham, author of the "History of Salem Witchcraft," and Josiah Quincy, afterwards mayor of Boston. During his first year in college, Emerson was the "president's freshman," doing his errands and making his announcements for him. He was at this time...
...feared would have been led there by mixed motives. It would not have been the owl, the bird of Minerva, which would have led them on, but a lark. Certainly they are offered the privilege of a Harvard annex (without, however, the excellent offices of Miss Ticknor to arrange matters), but the masses have not jumped to avail themselves of it.-[N. Y. letter to Traveller...
...active service as editor, and in the following year permanently severed his editorial and business connections with the paper, when he accepted the Chair of Political Economy in the college. The first Washington correspondent of the Advertiser was Mr. Adams S. Hill, now Professor of Rhetoric. Mr. Howard M. Ticknor, late instructor in Elocution, was musical critic under Professor Dunbar's management. Harvard graduates have always been leading members of the editorial staff of the paper...
Signor Salvini was the guest of Mr. Howard M. Ticknor Sunday...