1874: First freshman English course at Harvard by president, Charles William Eliot
1874: Eliot introduced writing test as part of the Harvard entrance requirement
1883: Establishment of the Modern Language Association
1911: Establishment of the National Council of Teachers of English (originally formed to fight college dominion over high school curriculum)
1920s: The appearance of the research essay in Freshman writing courses
1928: College edition of English Journal (originally dedicated only to high school teaching)
1939: English Journal's college edition became College English
1949: CCCC had its first meeting
1950s: Communications courses became popular at American universities
1975: Graduate programs in Composition and Rhetoric were forming, and Rhetoric was becoming a respectable academic specialty
1874: Eliot introduced writing test as part of the Harvard entrance requirement
1883: Establishment of the Modern Language Association
1911: Establishment of the National Council of Teachers of English (originally formed to fight college dominion over high school curriculum)
1920s: The appearance of the research essay in Freshman writing courses
1928: College edition of English Journal (originally dedicated only to high school teaching)
1939: English Journal's college edition became College English
1949: CCCC had its first meeting
1950s: Communications courses became popular at American universities
1975: Graduate programs in Composition and Rhetoric were forming, and Rhetoric was becoming a respectable academic specialty