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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Harvard University. (search)
overnment and administration. To the students under its control this Faculty offers four hundred and thirty-seven courses of instruction, divided among the following subjects: Semitic Languages and History; Indo-Iranian Languages; Greek; Latin; English; German; French; Italian; Spanish; Romance Philology; Comparative Literature; Philosophy; History; Government; Economics; Fine Arts; Architecture; Music; Mathematics; Engineering; Physics; Chemistry; Botany; Zoology; Geology; Mineralogy and Petre advice of his instructors, that he may make the best use of his freedom. To secure the degree of Bachelor of Arts he must have passed with at least a certain prescribed rank in eighteen courses of study, two of which are prescribed courses in English, and he must have some knowledge of both German and French, if he had it not when he entered college. Except for these restrictions his course is what he himself determines; he is what he elects to be. Neither is the period of residence at the
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The public schools of Cambridge. (search)
y pounds so long as he should continue schoolmaster in this place. The General Court made similar grants for Mr. Corlett's relief, so that his heart was touched, as he himself once quaintly said, by their remarkable gentlenes and very tender dealings with a sad, afflicted, weake man, inconsiderate and rash sometimes. The early grammar school which was required by law of 1647 in every town of one hundred families was not a grammar school in the modern sense. It was Latin grammar and not English that it taught. In brief, it was a college fitting school. While it was designed by law for youth, it was exclusively a boys' school. Girls did not attend it for the simple reason that the idea of a girl's fitting for college, to say nothing of her going there, would have shocked the colonists. Indeed, girls did not usually attend the early reading and writing schools. To be sure, the law of 1647 was explicit, that after the Lord hath increased a town to fifty householders, one within
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The Episcopal Theological School. (search)
Massachusetts, a Theological School for the purpose of educating young men of competent talents, pure morals, and piety for the Christian Ministry, in accordance with the doctrines, principles, and polity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, appropriated to that end the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. The phrases of the formal statement are not to be read merely in their conventional sense. Every word was weighed. The school was to be American and not English, and was to uphold the great truths of the Reformation. It was the purpose of the founder that the teachings of the school shall at all times embody and distinctly set forth the great doctrine of justification by Faith alone in the Atonement and Righteousness of Christ, as taught in the Articles of Religion, commonly called the thirty-nine articles, according to the natural construction of the said articles (Scripture alone being the standard) as adopted at the Reformation, and not accord
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
ugh; the Greek Grammar, by Prof. W. W. Goodwin; Greek Lessons, by Prof. J. W. White; the Harvard Shakespeare, by Dr. Henry N. Hudson; the mathematical works of Prof. J. M. Peirce and Prof. W. E. Byerly, and many others. Among the other books most widely known and most extensively used, of the eight hundred now published by the house, are the Wentworth Series of Mathematics, the National Music Course, by Luther Whiting Mason, Whitney's Essentials of English Grammar, Lockwood's Lessons in English, Collar and Daniell's Beginner's Latin Book, Young's Series of Astronomies, Blaisdell's Physiologies, Gage's Physics, the series of Classics for Children, Montgomery's, Myers's, and Allen's Histories, and Frye's Geographies. It has been the aim of this house to make a careful study of the problems of education, and it has spared no pains to secure the best editorial talent possible. Its list now includes books by the leading educational men all over the country, and in almost every town
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
ton building, 194; high school organized in Cambridgeport, 194; its first teacher, 194; not favored in Old Cambridge, 194; Otis schoolhouse in East Cambridge, 194; teachers, 194; teachers of Female High School, 194; high school for the city opened, 195; teachers, 195; Old Cambridge opposition, 195; Old Cambridge high school closed, 195; beginning of the Cambridge High School, 195; its new building, 195; popularity, 195; a third home, 195; the high school divided, 195; the Latin School, 196; English High School building, 196; Manual Training School, 196; a new building for the Latin School, 196; a decade of unparalleled high school development, 196; Mr. Rindge's gifts, 196. Fifty years ago, fruit of, 197; exhibitions, 197; corporal punishment diminishing, 197; reading, 197; irregular attendance, 198; school libraries, 198; committee visits, 198; popularity of Cambridge schools, 198; grades, 198; cost of instruction, 198; spelling, 198, 199; protest against many studies, 199; need of go