The Muhlenberg, Vol. 22

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Excerpt from The Muhlenberg, Vol. 22: September, 1904Early, however, in the 19th century, men like President Wayland of Brown University and President Nott of Union College began to distrust this method of organization, and, about i1850, President Barnard of Columbia showed conclusive ly that the proportion of students going to college in the United States was steadily growing less and less. This ten deney was attributed to a general dissatisfaction with the lim ited range of studies oi'fered by the ordinary College. In 1852, President Tappen of the University of Michigan boldly declared that science, the modern language and history were entitled to the same prominence in the college curriculum that should be given to the ancient languages and the mathematics. On this theory the collegiate department of Michigan Univer sity was remodeled, proved successful and became the model for the organization of other State Universities. This spirit of progress also, in a few years, greatly modified the courses of the older colleges. While Latin and Greek and the mathematics retained their dominant in¿uence in the first two years of the course, the modern languages and the natural sciences, as well as history, economics and the modern litera tures became prominent in the third and the fourth years. Technical studies also pressed for recognition and soon the old exclusiveness yielded to modern method.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.