INTRODUCTION 



Bowen and Hedge, R. W. Emerson, Mr. Elliot 

 Cabot, Mr. Charles Peirce,and Professor George 

 P. Fisher) who together are to give " lessons " 

 constituting the " University Course in Philoso- 

 phy.'' Fiske appears in this statement as re- 

 sponsible for "The Positive Philosophy." In 

 the Catalogue for 1870-71, this "systematic 

 course " in Philosophy for graduates, etc., is not 

 announced. The plan of organizing such a 

 scheme of graduate instruction had evidently 

 proved for the time impracticable. But amongst 

 the " University Lectures " for the year appears 

 a course thus defined : " The Positive Phi- 

 losophy and the Doctrine of Evolution. By 

 John Fiske, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 

 3 p. M., beginning February 15. Thirty-five 

 lectures.'* 



The " systematic course " in philosophy, 

 given in 1869-70, is mentioned in President 

 Eliot's Report of the work for that year (pp. 19, 

 20). This, it may be remarked, was the first 



and these two new ** University Courses of Instruction.** 

 The latter (id. p. 102) are described as ** systematic courses 

 of instruction ' * in Philosophy and in Modern Literature, 

 given **to graduates, teachers, and other competent persons 

 (men and women)." ** There is no examination for admis- 

 sion,*' the announcement proceeds to say. A voluntary *' ex- 

 amination for honors" is announced in connection with the 

 philosophical course. 



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