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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), Life in Cambridge town. (search)
lived in Cambridge and were a controlling power. Mrs. Farrar, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Howe, Mrs. King, and others,—of whom Miss Fuller herself was the representative in the next generation,—and whom I was accustomed to seeing treated with respect by educated men, although these ladies themselves had never passed through college. Yet Radcliffe was anticipated in a small way by the advantages already held out to studious girls through the college professors; and my own elder sister studied Latin, French, Italian, German, and geometry with teachers thus provided. Some of these instructors were cultivated foreigners, who had been driven here as German or Italian reformers, and were glad to eke out the scanty salaries paid by the college. In all these social descriptions I have in view mainly the region now called Harvard Square, because I knew it best; although it is worth remarking that the finest library in all Cambridge—that since bequeathed by Thomas Dowse, the leather dresser, to the M<
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)
ministration. 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 Petrography; American of the school the number of its students has steadily grown, until in 1895 five hundred and seventy-five were registered. For the summer of 1896 the school offers at Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School courses in English, German, French, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, General American History, Education and Teaching, Freehand Drawing, Botany, Physiology and Hygiene for Teachers, Physical Training, and Latin, and also courses at the Medical School and 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), Private schools in Cambridge. (search)
ial interest gained by talking or lecturing. As the number of pupils is small, the teaching is done in part only by classes, in large part by oversight of each one's work or perplexities separately. At whatever point in his preparation a new pupil is found to be, from that he is pushed farther on. Believing that boys intended for a liberal course of study should be early initiated into that course, whenever he can the principal is glad to have them begin with the elements of Latin or French, with algebra and inventional geometry at the age of nine or ten years. This school has had its measure of success in training boys in knowledge and righteousness; good results have been reached; patrons have generally, after trial, approved of it. Three professorships in as many of the leading universities in the country are now filled by its graduates, while others hold high positions of different kinds. This shows that some of them get a right start at least on the road to higher lear
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)
liard at this time. Two years later, Charles Folsom, a graduate of the class of 1813, and Librarian of the college from 1823 to 1826, became identified with the Press, and his scholarship did much to increase the high reputation it had already gained for accuracy and elegance of workmanship. At this time nearly all the text-books used in the college were printed here. Mr. Folsom became known as the Harvard Aldus, and during his proprietorship books were printed in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Among other books issued at this time may be mentioned Sparks's edition of Washington's Writings, and his American Biography, and Prescott's histories. In 1842 the Press passed into the hands of Charles R. Metcalf, Omen S. Keith, and George Nichols, but within a year or two Mr. Keith retired, and Marshall T. Bigelow entered the firm. In 1859 the firm-name was changed to Welch, Bigelow & Co., and as such gained a still wider reputation for skilled book-maki