Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Dartmouth. - Zoology has been introduced into the curriculum of the Junior year. Professor Hitchcock is giving lectures to the present Juniors...
...study which is discarded by the other classes. It is hardly necessary to explain that the class referred to are the Freshmen, and we are too well acquainted with the studies with which they are afflicted to make an enumeration necessary. There is, however, one characteristic of the Freshman curriculum which falls so heavily upon many students that its modification would be of great benefit...
...Cornell Era has an editorial upon military drill, which it pathetically terms "Our Military Inflictions." It appears that drilling is a part of the required curriculum of the University, and that the students are so anxious to get rid of it that they propose to send a petition to the Trustees ("if the Faculty so advise") requesting their permission to have the obnoxious regulation abolished. Apropos of the article on Military Drill in the last Magenta, it expresses the friendly wish that the "infliction" may be transferred to Harvard, "body and spirit," - whatever that may mean...
...criticism we would advance is, that the present curriculum is unsatisfactory in that it does not treat of the law as a whole, and neglects to give that general instruction which is very desirable and necessary for a student at this period, and was met by Chancellor Kent in his famous Commentaries, prepared for and delivered to classes of law students for the purpose of presenting to them a complete judicial outline...
...still more extended sphere of usefulness in the future. It is one of the most studious schools in the land, has an unequalled library, and its Law Clubs and moot courts are the most useful and best sustained of any Law School in America. Its great need is a curriculum better adapted to the times and the student. The present system presupposes that the student has a well-trained mind, has four years at least to devote to the theory of the law, and then several years more in an office, to devote to the practical part. This many believe...