Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...system announced that "the design of the school was to afford a complete course of legal education for gentlemen intended for the Bar in any of the United States, except in matters of mere local law and practice." The curriculum was so arranged as to cover as far as possible all the important branches of the law. The method of instruction was by lectures, recitations, and moot courts. The students were brought into contact with some of the ablest jurists of the land, who instructed them in the use of books, the library, and how to work up a case...
...course which they have taken. The Faculty, after what has happened, cannot recede an inch consistently with the dignity of their position, and have absolutely no choice but to assert their authority. Even were it possible, would it be advisable to entirely suppress the military portion of the College curriculum? In this country the principle of trusting to chance is carried to an alarming extent. We seldom or never make much preparation for war until war is upon us, and then we find that not only are our military supplies deficient, but that nine tenths of our impromptu army...
...Classics. It evinces a commendable disregard for all things modern, and a due loyalty to the customs of our more enlightened ancestors. It is difficult to understand how any right-minded individual can advocate a course of study that contains less of Latin and Greek than the average college curriculum; yet there are those of acknowledged ability who claim that the discipline of the Classics is overrated, that it is no more adapted to the fullest development of every mind than is the discipline derived from any other single branch of study: hence they would institute the elective course. Absurd...
...from the course of study laid down, anything about the quality of the teaching. Promises made to the eye may be so imperfectly kept as to be broken to the hope. We have before us the prospectus of a college that has but five regular professors, and yet the curriculum is substantially that of Yale, besides the offer of a special course for post-graduates." Our limited space prevents our copying half so much as we should like, but we cannot help quoting two of the things which, according to the author, a catalogue should be expected...
...fill out its curriculum the [Law] School greatly needs a fourth professorship, to be devoted to Roman Law, Jurisprudence, and the History of Law; but this chair must be amply endowed, for the number of students in this country who know enough to desire thorough instruction in these subjects is small and likely to continue so for many years to come." The School itself cannot pay such a professor, as it barely meets its expenses now; so the deficiency must remain unsupplied...