... In 1851 Child introduced it at Harvard. In 1856 it reached Lafayette; in 1867, Haverford; in 1868, St. John's College; in 1871, Cornell; and by 1875 it was read at Columbia and the University of Wisconsin , and at Yale in the Sheffield Scientific School and the Post-Graduate Department. Fowler by his teaching and Webster through his writings are said to have exercised a dominant influence on the mi...