Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...open question whether the restricted course necessary for the aspirant to honors, though undoubtedly exerting a stimulating and concentrating influence on the mind, may not, by the very narrowness of the curriculum and the continual contemplation of merely one subject or set of subjects, defeat the object of honors by warping, more than disciplining and cultivating, the mind. Undoubtedly the age and antecedents of the student determine the advisability of such a course. All that can safely be said is that, for a man of little general reading, little knowledge beyond the text-books of the first two years...
...Alumni supper Professor Lindsay and Mr. Parke Godwin presented the advantages of adding art studies to the College curriculum...
...looking over the old curriculum about which several Transcript correspondents have had lately so much to say, it will be found that the only subjects required twenty-five years ago and not now among the requisitions for a degree are Natural History and Curves and Planes. Of these two studies the first was a Sophomore and the second a Junior study. The amount of Latin and Greek read in 1850 was not much, if at all, greater than what the present student reads before entering upon his Sophomore year. Substitutions of the ancient and modern languages for the higher courses...
...long tottered should be considerably lessened. The Examining Committee have reported that Analytical Geometry is too difficult a study for that class, and that a further diminution of mathematics in the Freshman year would be advisable. The Committee also recommend that Junior Logic and Themes be introduced into the curriculum of the Freshman year, thus supplanting the for the most part painful and useless study of Triangles and Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which are indispensable to the education of even moderately informed persons. As required studies have been taken from the other classes, they have been imposed upon...
...absence of such a course in our curriculum is all the more blameworthy and unnecessary in view of the required studies which are still retained. Will any unbiassed mind prefer Trigonometry to Political Economy, either as regards the practical utility of the study or its value in training the mind? Can it be more valuable to a man to be able to solve an oblique triangle than to understand the questions of financial policy which are agitating the whole country? Our colleges and schools are responsible for the prevailing ignorance of Political Economy. Harvard takes the lead by ceasing...