Word: curricula
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world war upon the universities and colleges of this country, the New York World sent to a number of these institutions a questionaire composed of seven queries. All of these were concerned with the effect of the war and involved such questions as comparative registration, changes in policy and curricula, military training, and so forth...
Military training in the majority of cases is being continued although on a reduced scale. The study of German apparently has fallen off greatly but in most instances this is regarded as merely a temporary lapse. There have been some changes in the curricula but none that can be called radical...
...record-breaking enrolment is taking place in most of the colleges throughout the country, and to meet the new conditions caused by the great inrush of students, several of them are announcing changes in their curricula. The most important undergraduate change this year in Yale's reconstruction plans is the abolition of the select course of the Sheffield Scientific School and its transfer to the academic department, whose fine arts course it had duplicated...
Changes in curricula are numerous. In many institutions new emphasis is being placed on foreign trade courses, and Spanish has come into wider favor. Some are teaching navigation for the first time. In nearly all stress is being laid on the courses which make for better citizenship and service to the State rather than for academic scholarship. These changes are more markedly a result of the war than the changes in entrance requirements. An acute shortage of teachers is apparent in some quarters. In practically all the institutions special preparations are being made to admit returned soldiers...
...review of the changes in curricula adopted by the American colleges in general as a result of the Great War, impresses upon us the fact that Harvard is taking a distinct stand of her own in the matter of scholastic reform. Other colleges are modifying their entrance requirements, or laying emphasis on particular studies of a practical nature; Harvard has reformed her system with a view to increasing undergraduate interest in scholarship. We cannot but feel that the University has taken the better considered course, and at the same time has struck at the real root of the problem...