The university degree, when first conferred in the literary institutions of mediaeval Europe, is said to have been merely a certificate of proficiency or license to teach. Since then, college education has vastly developed and departed widely from its original standards, so that now a college degree contains in formal meaning little of its ancient significance. The functions of the university in fitting men as teachers is, however, still of great importance. Harvard has begun to expressly recognize this part of its duty by the appointment of an annual lecturer on pedagogy and methods of teaching, to be followed eventually, no doubt, by the establishment of a full professorship in the subject.
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