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. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... system, might, if the system were modified in the manner above suggested, add greatly to the number of students, and, at the same time, confer inestimable advantages on every class of society." The committee therefore recommended to the Corporation the adoption of this resolution: "Resolved, that the system ...
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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. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... system, might, if the system were modified in the manner above suggested, add greatly to the number of students, and, at the same time, confer inestimable advantages on every class of society." The committee therefore recommended to the Corporation the adoption of this resolution: "Resolved, that the system of instruction in Brown University be modified and extended in the manner indicated in the above Report, as soon as the sum of $125,000 can be added to its present funds." The report made a stir throughout the country. And yet it contained little or nothing that was new in theory. Dr. Wayland had himself presented the kernel of the matter in his report to the fellows in 1841, containing the following sentence: " It is the opinion of your committee that an effort must soon be made by the more advanced American colleges to adapt their courses to the different capacities and wants of students, giving to each officer the opportunity to carry his course of instruction to as great a degree of perfection as he is able, fixing certain acquisitions as necessary to graduation but making such arrangements as will enable those not candidates for a degree to obtain in the various departments of knowledge such instruction as may qualify them for the occupations for which they were designed." In 1842 he had covered the whole ground in his little book, Thoughts on the Present Collegiate System in the United States. In practice, too, nearly everything that the report advocated had been anticipated even in American colleges, to say nothing of European. In Rhode Island something had been done from early times to bring the benefits of the college to the whole community. In 1785 and 1786 Professor Water-house had given courses of popular lectures on natural...
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