Chapter IV: Part 4

The Macmillan Company published in June the valuable bibliography prepared by Miss Grace Gardner Griffin, entitled “Writings on American History, 1907.” This is the second year of the publication of the work in this form; the volume contains a bibliography of books and articles upon Continental United States and Canada, and some references to other portions of America. Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has again supervised the making of the year-book.

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An excellent result of the establishment of summer schools has been the interchange of the teaching forces of colleges and universities; and on a minor scale the employment of strong secondary school men in summer college courses. Much has been made of the international exchange of professors recently brought about; but unconsciously within our own country there has been established a custom which must prove very valuable not alone to institutions inviting outside instructors, but also to those instructors themselves, and to their own institutions. Thus, taking the history men alone last summer Harvard was represented at the University of California, Yale at Wisconsin, Leland Stanford at Kansas; Columbia at Chicago, Wisconsin at Illinois, University of the South at Michigan, Indiana University at Cornell; Michigan at Chicago; Brown at Harvard, and Pennsylvania at Columbia.

Such an exchange of instructors cannot but bring about a mutual education; and when it is remembered that the same policy of exchange is going on in many other subjects than history, it will be seen that we have here a great power for good.

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Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.