1870

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Report of a Committee of the Trustees of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Concerning the System of Instruction, with Proposed Modifications. Troy, N.Y.: W.H. Young & Blake, 1870.

Leading academic institutions of the nineteenth century recognized the need to keep abreast of inventions and discoveries and ensure that changes in the curriculum kept pace with developments in the field. In the preface, the authors cite the need to have a closer relationship between "the School and the Practice".