Phi Beta Kappa dissertation on the study of history at Harvard, February 21, 1797.

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Phi Beta Kappa dissertation on the study of history at Harvard, February 21, 1797.

This dissertation, apparently delivered at a Phi Beta Kappa assembly on February 21, 1797 by John Collins Warren and Daniel Appleton White, concerns the study of history at Harvard College at the time they were students. In this manuscript version of their dissertation, Warren and White bemoan the insufficient attention paid to the discipline of history by the students and faculty at Harvard.

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