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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
rriculum and the advanced university organization of that institution. Moreover, the organization by schools or subjects instead of by college classes is believed by historians of education to have suggested to George Ticknor the idea of the departmental and of the elective system, so far as he was able to introduce them at Harvard. Meanwhile there had arrived in this country several other bearers of influence from Latin countries. Peter Stephen DuPonceau (1760-1844) at the house of Beaumarchais in Paris met Baron Steuben, and came to America with him as secretary and aide de camp. Arriving in 1777, he received a captaincy in the American army and served until 1780, when bad health obliged him to give up active campaigning. For a while he was secretary to Robert Livingston, then in charge of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and after studying law he was in June, 1785, admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, where he had become a citizen. He rose to such eminence in his professi
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Barry, Phillips, 512 Barstow, Elizabeth, 44 Bartlett, John R., 153 Barton, William, 429 Bartram, Wm., 540 n. Bascom, John, 210, 229 n., 435 Bastiat, 435 Bateman, Mrs., 275 Bates, Blanche, 281 Batti Batti, 450 Battle cry of freedom, 497 Battle hymn of the Republic, the, 121, 495, 496 Battles and leaders of the Civil War, 181 Baumfeld, Maurice, 589 Beach, Rex, 288 Beade, E. F., 152 Beadle and Adams, 66 Beadle, J. H., 143 Beau Brummell, 278, 283 Beaumarchais, 448 Beaurepaire, Chevalier Quesnay de, 447 Beauties of Poetry, British and American, 544 n. Because she loved him so, 285-6 Beck, Karl, 451, 462, 463 Beckwourth, James P., 52 Becky sharp, 288, 294 Bedford, Duke of, 454 Bedouin song, 43 Bedroom window, the, 511 Beecher, Catherine, 70 Beecher, Henry Ward, 123, 325, 344, 416, 496 Beecher, Lyman, 69 Beethoven, 49 Beginners of a nation, the, 191 Beginnings of New England, the, 193 Beissel, Conrad, 536, 574