Word: curricula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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March 28--"Religion in Education."--College Curricula, Public and Private Schools, Parochial Schools. Present Condition and Trends. Public Support of Church Schools. Dean H. W. Holmes...
...confusing general cultural education with professional preparation. These eastern universities which have limited their numbers make no attempt at preparing the undergraduate directly for life, leaving that task for the graduate schools; but unlimited institutions, particularly the great western universities, have adapted themselves, by including professional courses in undergraduate curricula, to the student who cares nothing for his general development. Thus a student who has entered college only because everyone else is doing it, without much purpose of broadening himself culturally, has access to undergraduate courses in law business, agriculture, medicine; and he can spend his four years profitably...
That America is making mediocrity king may apply even to these universities whose curricula are laid out on the broadest cultural lines, for even those institutions do not often produce graduates who are as efficient intellectually as are the best products of English and Continental training...
...Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced their fall curricula...
...school," which seems the logical answer to the nation's educational problems. But if the Toms, Dicks and Harrys, the Marys, Janes and Joans ever catch their fathers and mothers agreeing to the monstrous proposal that summer, Christmas and Easter vacations are not an inseparable part of school curricula, their cereals will not remain uneaten on their plates, but will be plastered on the walls, ceilings, floors of many a breakfast room. As for the World, its unfortunate delivery boys will be ambushed as they make their morning rounds, will be roughly handled...