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Show HISTORY WAS NOT TAUGHT. Recognition by Colleges of Importance of Amerloan BCory. A little moro than thirty years ngo a boy could enter Harvard collcgo nnd after four yoars graduato with tho hlghost honors without knowing of tho oxlstenco of tho declaration of In-dopendenco In-dopendenco or when tho constitution of the United States was framod, says Henry Cabot Iodgo In tho Iteader Magazine. What was true of Har vard was true of othor universities and colleges, American history was not Included In tho schome of tho higher education. Hoys ontorlng col-lego col-lego were required to know something of the history of Greece nnd Ilomo, but not of their own country. During the four years of tho collego course they had opportunity to study the history his-tory of England and Kuropo, but nover to loarn augbt of the United States. This condition of education was merely mere-ly nn Indication of an attltnde of mind then passing nway, but which had onco been predominant. The usual opinion seems to havo been during the first half rf the nineteenth contury thnt there wns no American history worth telling, npnrt from the adventures of the revolution, which were both con-nectod con-nectod so closely with tho history of Kuropo that they might be decniod of Importance |