Complex sentence: The Yale Report of 1828 was a defense of the Latin and Greek curriculum, And a call to maintain traditions, especially against the forceful reputation of the German research universities that were starting to attract young American postgraduate scholars.
Split into simpler sentences: The Yale Report of 1828 was a defense of the Latin and Greek curriculum. It called to maintain traditions, especially against the forceful reputation of the German research universities that were starting to attract young American postgraduate scholars.