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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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ing exe-cises, althoughtheir action on the matter is often quoted toprove their democratic simplicity. In 1782 and1783 three professorships of medicine were es-tablished, and the first degree of bachelorof medicine was conferred in 1788. In 1810 thelectures in medicine were transferred to Boston,and there the first medical college was bmlt.The law school was established in 1817, and ithas the distinction of being the earliest schoolof law in the country connected with a univer-sity and authorized to confer degrees 111 law.The divinitv school was a gradual outgrowthof the college; the Hollis professorship of dvin-ity, which has been mentioned, was establishedin 1721, but the divinitv faculty was not formallyorganized until 1819. It is now undenomina-tional, no assent to the special doctrines of anysect or denomination of Christianity being re-quired of anv instructor or student. The schoolsof medicine, law and divinity are the three oldestadditions to the college proper, and it was de-
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Z 1 o ; I HARVARD UNIVERSITY. cided that such an institution, having 4 schoolsand several departments, justified the title, uni-versity. In about 1822, a number of the friends of edu-cation and of the institution thought the timehad come when further changes should be madein the work required of the students. GeorgeTicknor (q.v.), professor in the department ofmodern languages, urged that some divisionof studies should be made whereby studentsmight be permitted to pursue special courses orspecialize on certain subjects. A committee,with Joseph Story as chairman, was appointed toinvestigate the wisdom of such a change, andliow best to meet the needs of the students. Thecommittee reported (1824) the advisability of in-stituting two lines of study — the one a coursenecessarj- for a degree, the other a scientific andmechanical course for those not intending to takedegrees, but who desired to fit themselves forcertain departments of work. The departurefrom old customs as recommended by t

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