Word: bachelors
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There are only two American universities which include music in their regular curriculum for the bachelor's degree; they are Harvard and the University of Michigan. But music has always been a traditional part of a liberal education. It was one of the socalled "seven arts" of the mediaeval universities; and at Oxford and Cambridge it has been continued uninterruptedly to this day, among the regular courses of instruction. There the degrees of Bachelor of Music and Doctor of Music, based on theoretical work and actual competition required from candidates, stand on an equal footing with the degrees in Arts...
...will be two or three years before the effects of the change will be fully felt. The friends of Latin, Greek and Mathematics will be sorry to see the advanced electives in these subjects slowly thin out. Harvard is already accused of perverting and vitiating the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and we should be loosen to lose the advantage we now hold of offering advanced specialized instruction in Classics and Mathematics superior to that of any other college in America...
...rank, English, French, German, History, Political Economy and Natural Science, not one of which can be said to have existed in mature form when the definition of a liberal education which is still in force, was laid down." The writer asserts that, although the meaning of the degree of Bachelor of Arts has quietly undergone many serious modifications, "it ought now to be fundamentally and openly changed." Through the force of custom, tradition, inherited tastes, and transmitted opinions; the educational practices of today are still cast in the moulds of the seventeenth century. The scholars of that time...
...faculty of Trinity College have published schemes of study modifying and enlarging the present curriculum, which have been approved by a committee of the corporation and are intended to take effect in the fall. One fourth of the work in the last two years of the bachelor of arts course is made elective, and the elections are given a wide range. Two courses of study, one of three and one of four years, are provided for the degree of bachelor of science including advanced mathematics, science, laboratory work, etc. A fourth course, in letters, is meant for non-technical students...
Donald G. Mitchell, the author of "Reveries of a Bachelor," is suggested by one of the Yale papers as the successor to Professor Northrop in the chair of Belles Lettres...