Proceedings, Volume 2Georga Banta Publishing Company, 1904 - History |
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... attempt to teach such things anew in every course involves a large amount of wasteful repetition . If our introductory courses give nothing which we desire to demand as a condition of more advanced study , so much the worse for them ...
... attempt to teach such things anew in every course involves a large amount of wasteful repetition . If our introductory courses give nothing which we desire to demand as a condition of more advanced study , so much the worse for them ...
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... attempt is made to avoid this by restricting the number of elementary courses which may be taken , it becomes impossible for the ordinary student to get à general view of history . Until our students come to college with a more ...
... attempt is made to avoid this by restricting the number of elementary courses which may be taken , it becomes impossible for the ordinary student to get à general view of history . Until our students come to college with a more ...
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... attempt to enumerate now , can , I believe , be realized more fully by the college than by the lower schools . For example , training of the judgment and the critical sense is always named among the aims of his- torical study ; a bare ...
... attempt to enumerate now , can , I believe , be realized more fully by the college than by the lower schools . For example , training of the judgment and the critical sense is always named among the aims of his- torical study ; a bare ...
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... attempts the study of a special period or topic without some knowledge of the general course of history will find it impos- sible to understand fully its connections and its significance and thus fail to realize its full benefits ...
... attempts the study of a special period or topic without some knowledge of the general course of history will find it impos- sible to understand fully its connections and its significance and thus fail to realize its full benefits ...
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... attempt to be an index to the individual documents , for in many of the departments the records can be described only in very gen- eral terms , and by giving their weight in tons or the shelving occupied in miles . In the case , however ...
... attempt to be an index to the individual documents , for in many of the departments the records can be described only in very gen- eral terms , and by giving their weight in tons or the shelving occupied in miles . In the case , however ...
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American history ancient history articulation Association Brearley School Bryn Mawr Central High School Clinton High School college entrance requirements Commercial High School Committee of Seven Cornell course in history course of study discussion E. H. CASTLE Emma G English history enter college European history field of history freshman historical curriculum historical instruction historical study history course history teaching Horace Mann School important institutions instructor interest introductory course JULIUS SACHS knowledge large number lege Leland Stanford Lucy mediæval methods N. J. New York N. Y. Brooklyn N. Y. Philadelphia Normal School preparatory school present President problem Prof Professor question recommendation regard Roman history scholars School for Girls School of Commerce secondary schools Shady Side Academy study of history suggestion Swarthmore Swarthmore College taught TEACHERS COLLEGE teachers of history text-book tion tory universal history University of Pennsylvania Ursinus College Vassar College Witt Clinton High York City
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Page 10 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it.
Page 10 - Roman states governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Whether governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments ; let men be good, and the government cannot be bad ; if it be ill, they will cure it.
Page 22 - ... Unless we effect the separation by artificial means we encounter no purely chemical, or purely optical, or purely mechanical phenomena ; but phenomena in the production of which a variety, greater or less, of physical forces concur — that is to say, we know physical nature also through its ensemble. We are thus brought back to the point from which we started, why are we — the phenomena of social life and those of physical nature being made known to us under similar conditions — to reverse...
Page 4 - History was chosen for the subject of the first volume of this educational library because, after much observation in the schoolrooms of many of the larger cities in the eastern part of our country, the editor...
Page 6 - ... but it serves as the skeleton which the teacher is to clothe with flesh and blood. Sources have not taken the place of the text-book, but they are used to illustrate, not to reconstruct history. One of the greatest gains of the discussions of the past twenty years has been the clarification of our ideas in regard to the relation to each other of sources and text-books.
Page 53 - Committee, in which it was stated that they had examined the Report of the Treasurer, and found it correct. The...
Page 30 - Your committee unanimously support the recommendations of both the Committee of Ten and the Committee of Seven, that the course of study in history in the secondary schools should be constructed to subserve the ends for which the secondary schools exist. No pressure from the relatively few students who expect to enter college should interfere with this; no conditions imposed by the colleges should be permitted to disarrange or shorten the course in history of the greatest advantage to the future...
Page 47 - I wish those who would give three or four hours to history in the high school would sit down and make out a course of study and put it in. The Committee of Ten tried the experiment, and the result was that when they came to make out the program on the basis of their recommendations, they had more hours' work than there are hours in the week.
Page 53 - The Auditing Committee, Professors WI Hull and HV Ames, reported that they had examined the report of the Treasurer and found it correct. This report was adopted. The Committee on Nominations, Prof. EP Cheyney and Dr. JT Shotwell, reported the following nominations for officers for the ensuing...
Page 10 - Pressing home, then, a final question, we must ask what contribution we, as teachers, are personally making towards what Principal Caird has called " the other and higher function of extending the bounds of knowledge.