schools.

(_m_) The Report of the Committee of Seven of the American
Historical Association in 1896 supplemented the contemporary
efforts at reform.

(_n_) The Report of the Committee of Five of the American
Historical Association in 1907 embodied the best ideas which the
decade had developed looking to further improvement of historical
study and teaching.

(_o_) The Committee of Eight has still more recently sought to
perfect the art of studying and teaching the subject.

VII. _Values and Aims of History._

1. Psychological.

(_a_) It develops the power of constructive imagination through the
visualizing of scenes, events, and characters, and the effort to
put oneself back into the past.

(_b_) It trains the reasoning faculty through the necessity of
analyzing data, seeking causes and effects, and following
historical development wherever it may lead.

(_c_) It develops the power of associative memory through the
necessity of bringing facts into their essential and definite
relations.

(_d_) It trains the judgment, through requiring the mind to make
estimates respecting

(1) The probability of the fact recorded.

(2) The possibility and probability of accurate statement on
the part of the one recording the event.

(3) The efficiency of the adjustment of means to ends.

(4) The righteousness of the act.

(5) The motives and ideals that dominated the act.

(_e_) It develops the power of comparison through demanding
attention to similarities and differences in motives, agents,
means, processes, events, places, dates, and results.

(_f_) It develops the power of classification--of cooerdinating and
subordinating data.

(_g_) It develops the habit of forming generalizations from
detailed facts.

(_h_) It gives a real conception of the meaning of time, through
the considerations of man's slow evolution in social relations.

(_i_) It gives ability to take a large view of life's affairs and
interests,--to see things in their essential relations.

2. Social, Political, and Civic.

(_a_) It gives habits of analyzing the aims and motives of men, and
the means they employ to attain their ends, i.e., it gives insight
into character and hence makes social adjustment easier.

(_b_) It develops tolerance for the opinions, convictions, and