Word: branches
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hope to do for a long time. This year Harvard has made a still greater advance, and established twenty-five courses especially for graduates. Why should not some millionnaire earn a part of the glory of the founder of our College by endowing beside it a new college, a branch of the University, for the especial instruction of graduates...
...results of the entrance examinations at the beginning of the Freshman year, the students should be divided into " A" and " B " divisions. All obtaining more than 60% in any branch should be placed in "A" for that department, and all below in "B" At the end of each month or six weeks, on the result of an hour examination at the regular recitation hour, a new allotment of "A" and "B" divisions should be made. Semiannuals and annuals should take place as at present. The instruction in the "A" divisions would naturally be of a higher order than...
Math. 7 belongs to the professional study of Engineering, but it is also important as a branch of pure Mathematics. It is recommended to those especially who have a taste for pure Geometry...
...instructor in each of the principal departments of study, designed to give a general idea of the scope and application of the studies included in it, with as many of the leading facts as there would be time for, so that without making a regular study of every branch, each one might be able to obtain a general notion of its nature and value, both in itself and in its relation to the various trades and professions. A very few lectures in each department would be sufficient, and their popularity would probably not be less than that of the readings...
Aside from the assistance furnished by such lectures in the choice of electives, such a course would have no mean value as a branch of general culture. Hardly any instruction could be more interesting, and though we can learn but little, comparatively, of what is to be known, - of the omne scibile, - yet we have reached a stage at which it is desirable for us to take a broad, general view of the whole field of knowledge. This is necessary that we may have some understanding of the work of students in other departments than those in which it holds...