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...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...
...characteristic features of President Eliot's report compel the attention of the reader: First, his careful study of a general educational problem-the proper adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools; and secondly, his suggestion of many very interesting questions which come up in the administration of the University itself. One of the most interesting things which he discusses is the group of courses most largely taken by students in the College under the existing elective system. The President does not tell us just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives...
...Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania which has just appeared, is the largest ever issued, containing 421 pages of matter. It gives the total registration of the university as 2632 students, 1925 of whom are from Pennsylvania alone, and 94 from foreign countries. The curricula of all the professional schools has been increased and strengthened. One of the most important changes made is that regulating the requirements for admission to the college. Henceforth candidates for the freshman class will be admitted upon examination only, except in certain specified cases, upon the diplomas of public high schools...
...subjects considered essential to a liberal education. No "popular" course in it is given. This is not to be regretted, for it is certainly no loss to the science that the "popular" and superficial teaching of it has been dropped, with many of the other fixtures of the old curricula. But it would undoubtedly be of great interest still, to many members of the University, to learn somewhat more fully than they can from the catalogue, what, in general, the work of the Observatory is; and what noted contributions it makes to science from year to year. Without presuming...
There are two government universities in the Argentine Republic, the curricula of which take rank with Harvard and Yale...