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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When we come to discuss the curriculum of the new School, several points are to be noted. In the first place, an attempt is made to steer between the rigid and fixed curriculum found in some of the American professional schools and the very elastic schemes that are found in the ordinary university courses here and abroad. It was attempted to strike a happy medium by requiring in the first year from all candidates for a degree a certain number of courses aggregating one-half or two-thirds of the whole. Every student who intends to go into business should...
...University of Louvain. (VIII) The course will consider elementary and secondary education, professional education, and particularly university education in France, with references to education in neighboring countries. It will not limit itself to the study of the organization of schools and the methods and programs in use, but will attempt to show how organization, methods, and programs are adapted to the social, political, and economic conditions of the countries of continental Europe...
...part of the club's program of building up a complete collection of class albums and photographs. The set in question is made up of photographs, all under one glass, of daguerreotypes, which were taken at the time of graduation. So far as is known, this is the first attempt to reproduce a set of class pictures, of so early a date, in a single group. The contributors for this '52 picture have been numerous, including not only the six surviving members, but many others who are related to former members of the class...
...most encouraging feature of this tentative plan is the fact that is the fact that it represents the first attempt to standardize and unify the sporadic organizations existing in many colleges for the training of reserve officers. During the past few years the forming of school battalions, business men's drill companies, and college regiments have justly received the greatest praise and encouragement. Such movments have been most important in the campaign to impress upon the public the imperative need of an adequate defence program. The three great preparedness parades in New York, Chicago, and Boston have given evidence that...
...German Department, contributes a volume on "Personality in German Literature before Luther." This book contains six lectures delivered in 1915 at the Lowell Institute and subsequently under the Jacob H. Schiff Foundation at Cornell. Its main them is the rise and spread of individualism, together with an attempt to trace in the various forms of literary and intellectual life of the centuries preceding the Reformation a steady line of transition from aristocratic to democratic conceptions of personality...