This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...the element of general culture. That that general element should with us largely take the form of the study of History and Literature, and more particularly of the study of English History and the English Language and Literature seems to me beyond question. I desire again earnestly to call the attention of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...the element of general culture. That that general element should with us largely take the form of the study of History and Literature, and more particularly of the study of English History and the English Language and Literature seems to me beyond question. I desire again earnestly to call the attention of the Government to the unsatisfactory condition of the so-called "Science and Literature" department. While it is never without just enough students to make my position a very laborious one, it yet adds nothing to the strength or the resources of the institution. I am confident that by a reorganization it might add to both. While we are not in a position, and it will never be our proper function to attempt to cover the wide field of general education embraced by our colleges, there is one special department of education quite germane to the purposes for which our institution was founded, which is nowhere well provided for, and which we might undertake with every prospect of success. I mean the preparation of young men for active business life by an education in the study of the modern languages, the experimental study of natural and physical science, and in English subjects, including History and Literature, the elements of Law and Political Science, Political Economy and Statistics, and Commercial and Industrial Geography. There is a large and rapidly increasing class of young men in the community who, for various reasons, are not prepared, on the one hand, to invest their school years in the study of the ancient languages which is required for admission to our colleges, and on the other hand, have no taste or talent for engineering, or the other technical professions, but who yet do desire something beyond the education which our high schools g...
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