Harvard MemoriesHarvard University Press, 1923 - 142 páginas |
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Página 46 - Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians shall be required either of the instructors or students.
Página 28 - Press, 1923), p. 28. complete charge of the medical school " told the young president " that he knew nothing about the quality of the Harvard medical students ; more than half of them can barely write; of course they can't pass written examinations. . . . Dr. Bigelow's observation of the quality of the then medical students was somewhat exaggerated, but not grossly so.
Página 20 - ... had been much influenced by long intimacy with his next-door neighbor, Benjamin Peirce the mathematician, and with Louis Agassiz, his brother-in-law and close friend.
Página 27 - College," as with improvement in secondary schools it surely ought. In his Harvard Memories, President Eliot puts his finger on the spot : "To this day there are many Harvard Bachelors of Arts who hold that graduates of Harvard professional schools cannot be considered to be genuine sons of Harvard, and do not yet see that the service Harvard University renders to the country through its graduate professional schools is greater than that it renders through Harvard College proper. A Harvard tradition...
Página 32 - What have you done for him?" To which the young physician replied frankly, "I have given him so much sulphate of morphia." "Well, doctor," the older man replied, "you have killed him"— which turned out to be the case.' "Mr. Adams told this story and added, 'Now, I suppose this young doctor was one of those graduates of the Harvard Medical School who were required to pass only five examinations out of nine to obtain the degree. I am in favor of the proposition which has come to us from the Corporation.
Página 65 - No instruction?"— "None." "Nothing else said?" — "Nothing." — "Nothing to guide you, no sketch or anything?" — "Nothing." — "Well, that is exactly the way a puppy has to learn how to live and get his living."0 But, as Charles W. Eliot reminds us, what a puppy learns, he learns very well. And Agassiz believed that it is only in imitating the puppy's method of learning that young people will learn to observe, compare, and generalize.
Página 15 - Philosophy, and the fourth was just beginning to teach Anatomy and Surgery — were comparatively young men who had been brought up in the clerical and Classical tradition. The whole College course was prescribed. This condition would look strange to you in these days, when choice of studies is ample; but to show you how recently freedom in the selection of studies came into Harvard, I can tell you about the condition of my own generation in Harvard College between 1849 and 1853. I was able to make...
Página 8 - They differ strongly on political, industrial, and religious questions, but have a common, unifying desire to contribute to the public welfare." ("Harvard Memories", p. 8.) This desire is dominant in the president. If in his tastes he belongs to the "Brahmin class," in his principles he embodies the democracy of public service.
Página 65 - A careful observation of actual facts, an accurate recording of the facts determined, and a just and limited inference from the recorded facts.
Página 34 - ... the people. Comparatively few in numbers, they were not meager in the influence which they exerted, but on the contrary every one of them counted for a host in himself in the organization and definite establishment of the nation. President Eliot1 said of the attendance at Harvard in the early days : "The original Harvard College was wonderfully small — a little group of tutors and students. If you look over the Quinquennial Catalogue in which the successive graduates of Harvard are recorded,...