Show 0 C I HISTORY WAS NOT TAUGHT Recognition by Colleges of Importance of Amerl American an Story A little more than thirty years ago agoa a boy could enter Harvard college and after four years graduate with the tho highest honors without knowing of the existence of the declaration of independence independence in in- dependence or when the constitution of the United States was framed says Henry Cabot Lodge in the Reader Header Magazine What was true of Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard was true of at other universities and colleges American history was not included in the scheme of the higher education Boys entering college college college col col- lege were required to know something of the history of Greece and Rome but not of their own country During the four years of the college course cours they had opportunity to study the history history history his his- his his- tory of England and Europe but never to learn aught of the United States This condition of education was merely merely merely mere mere- ly an indication of an attitude of ot mind then passing away but which had once been predominant The usual opinion seems to have been during the first half of nf the nineteenth century that there was no American history worth telling apart from the adventures of the revolution which were both connected connected con con- eo so so closely with the history of Europe that they might be deemed of Importance |