Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the College will be able to profit by his services. We believe that positive advantage will be derived from this new experiment; for whatever may be the result, it is evidence of a desire on the part of the College government to widen the scope of the University curriculum, which must command the approval, not only of Harvard students, but of all true friends of education throughout the country...
...plan proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention appears to be not only a great improvement upon the present scheme, but a necessary consequence of the elective system. So long as a prescribed curriculum throughout the college course was adhered to, an average mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing...
...REPORT is abroad that the mathematical division of Sophomores have been warned against stopping to get anything of a stimulating nature while on excursions. The tendencies of mathematical studies have long been suspected, and now the proof is conclusive. Shall we hesitate any longer to hurl mathematics from our curriculum? - Williams Athenoeum...
...College Faculty, and the other governing boards of the University, the elective system itself, in contrast with a uniform curriculum required of all students, is never so much as called in question : but there are minor details of the system which are still discussed; as, for example, whether this course or that be a desirable one; whether this system unduly favor the classics, the modern languages, philosophy, history, or science; whether the choice of the individual student be oftenest determined by sound or trivial consideration; and whether any general advice as to choice of studies could be profitably given...
...these are used in the English universities. To begin with, we should like to know how a course of study can be at once like those of Oxford and Cambridge, which are essentially different from each other. Secondly, granting that Trinity is more like an English university in its curriculum than our other colleges are, what connection has this fact with the necessity of Latin prayers? The English universities have kept a custom which originated in their Roman Catholic days, and are excusable for so doing; an American college, in adopting this custom without the least reason, would merely...