Word: undoing
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...spirit of the times. So that however original an instructor's notion about the Classics, for instance, may be, he has at least a foundation to stand upon. Not so in German. Here every new instructor has, or thinks he has, for a year or more to undo the work of his predecessor; for another year to try his own experiments; and any thing like a system is adopted only after he has had a course or a class for at least two years. This is, in substance, the history of German instruction in Harvard. And precisely herein is found...