Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obtain by taking course 8, which will not be confined as previously, to the writings of Hegel. We are glad to see, on the whole, that the improvements in the important department of philosophy have kept pace with the general increase of efficiency which has characterized the whole curriculum...
...being circulated among the members of the junior class that English 6 may be returned to the list of electives for next year deserves to succeed. A course which gives so much opportunity for discussion, organization of ideas and public speaking, ought never to be removed from the curriculum even for one year. The present junior class surely should not be deprived of the advantage to be gained from the elective in question...
...seems to pervade the pamphlet from the beginning to the end, and this, coupled with the recent action of the faculty in regard to personal supervision of student's work by instructors, seem to be slowly destroying many of the former evils which were so apparent in the Harvard curriculum. Such a remedy, however, is but skin deep. The evils of the system may be weakened by such attempted aims, but nothing stable can ever be accomplished until the marking system is destroyed...
...Physics part of their system of education. Nearly all our other branches have courses of a similar grade, such as History I, Chemistry I, Political Economy I; and it must be gratifying to the members of the faculty, who are anxious to increase the importance of physics in our curriculum, to see with what promptness their efforts have been met by the elective-choosing student...
...only about fifty years old, less than twenty-five years in the colleges. There are now in America 3,000 teachers and 150,000 students of elocution. More college men are needed in the profession to raise it to its proper ranks. Very few of the colleges, in their curriculum, give more than toleration to this very important study. Princeton, Boston University, Cornell, are valuable exceptions to this, and Hamilton was the first of the colleges to offer inducements for proficiency in the art of oratory...