Notes on the History of the College for Women of Western Reserve University for Its First Twenty-Five Years, 1888-1913 (Paperback)

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. 1913. Excerpt: ... and from one-fourth to one-half of that of a fifth, and the entire time of the fifth could easily be used to the advantage of the students as well as of the other four instructors." The head of the department of History says: --"The work in history for the first three years was done by the late Professor Edward G. Bourne, then a member of the Adelbert faculty, or by the teachers of Latin and Greek as a part of their instruction in classical studies. Since 1892 the department has been under my care. An examination of the catalogue announcements shows that the development of the department has been affected not merely by the aims and ideals of its teaching force, but also by certain conditions which have governed the curriculum as a whole. The place the subject occupied at the start was assigned to it by tradition rather than as consequence of an adequate appreciation of its educational value. According to the statements of the first catalogue, history was to receive a little over six per cent of the attention of freshmen and sophomores. It was not mentioned in the entrance requirements, except as an incident in the preparation of students in Latin and Greek. No separate entrance requirements for history were recognized until 1895. Any change in this matter was difficult because the units required for entrance belonged to a fixed list. To find a place on the list it was necessary to push out something already there. Even in 1895 no separate entrance requirements in history were expected of the so-called Classical and Modern Language freshmen. So far as entrance requirements could do it the college intimated to the high schools that the study of history was unimportant. This situation could not be modified until the Classical, Modern Language, and Latin Engli...