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Show HISTORY WAS NOT TAUGHT. Recognition by Colleges of Importance of American ?lcry. A little more than Hi! ty yeais ngo a boy could enter Hnrwml college and after four jenrs graduate with the highest hoiiors without Knowing of the existence of the declaration of In dependence or when tho tonstltiltlon of tho United States was finined, says Henry Cabot Unlgo In tho Header .Mngiulnu What was true of Harvard Har-vard was true of other universities Jnd colleger American history was not Included In the Fclieme of the higher cduintlon. Itoys entering college col-lege were tequired to km.w something of tho liiHirry of (ire' nnd Home, hut not of their own co..utry. During tho four j ears of tho college course H-.- ho opportunity to bturty the history his-tory of England and r'i.ore, hut never to learn aught of the United States. Thin condition of education wns merely mere-ly nn Indication of nn attitude- of mind then passing away, hut .blcli hnd once been predominant. The ubual opinion seems to hne been during tho f.tst half of the nineteenth century that there was no American history worth telling, apart from the adventures ol tho revolution, which were both connected con-nected so closely with tho history of Kuropo that they might ho deemed ol Importance. |