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Boyhood and Youth, 1826–1854
2009
Overview
In Langdell’s youth lie the origins of his interest in education and the specific reforms in professional education that he advanced as dean of HLS. His encounters with John Locke’sEducationat Phillips Exeter Academy, with taxonomy and specimens in the natural history classes of Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz, with “office” education in a law firm, with the degree requirements at Harvard Divinity School, with other law students in table talk, and with eleemosynary aid for needy students contributed to principles and policies that he later instituted in professional education. Above all, his firm commitment to a formal system
