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Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Claims of the French and English to the Interior of the Continent, in their Geographic Relation. Mr. Justin Winsor. University...
...MONDAY.Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Claims of the French and English to the Interior of the Continent, in their Geographic Relation. Mr. Justin Winsor. University...
SEMINARY of American History and Institutions in U. 20 on Monday at 3.30. Mr. Justin Winsor will speak on "The Mississippi Valley in 1700 as a field for the coming struggle of the French and English...
...report of Mr. Winsor, librarian of the University Library, shows that the accessions to the library during the past year have amounted to 22,370 volumes. This makes a total of 431,298 cnntents of the possession of the University, and if unbound pamphlets be included (as is the case in counting the volumes in many European libraries) the total number is 762,850. Even this is not a fair test of comparison with the old world libraries, for often the number of titles in bound volumes of collected pamphlets, and the different specifications in collections of patent records...
...Justin Winsor then read a brief address. He dwelt chiefly on the relation of Francis Parkman to the old and new schools of historical study. Mr. Parkman began his life work when Sparks, Prescott and Bancroft were still on the field. The characteristic of the old school, of which these historians were the most prominent exponents, was the sacrifice of strict historical accuracy in every detail to an elaborate literary finish. Francis Parkman was the forerunner of a school by which historical integrity is regarded as absolutely necessary. He showed that it is possible to combine honesty of citation with...