Word: curricula
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since statistics show that the average candidate for admission to Harvard College obtains almost exactly the necessary 26 points, it would seem that the requirements for entrance are well adapted to the curricula of the schools at which men prepare. It is true, however, that this average is a mean of two extremes, about which the individual cases tend to group themselves. Men are liable to enter either with points to spare or with conditions; and a subject for discussion lies in the fact that the latter class is composed almost wholly of students who come from public schools which...
...University might, then, attempt to make its requirements conform to the curricula of the public schools. That an increased number of students from such institutions would be a benefit to the College is apparent from the investigations which have shown that a preponderance of students of the "preparatory" school type is detrimental to the scholarship of Harvard College as a whole...
...that it fixes attention upon the pass mark. In order to correct this impression, and create a stronger desire for excellence, the institution of distinct honor and pass degrees, akin to the practice of the English universities, has often been suggested. Whether it would be wise to have different curricula for honors and for a pass, as in England, is by no means clear. The vital point is the importance which those universities have attached, and persuaded the public to attach, to the winning of honors. It is that spirit which must be cultivated here if we would foster...