Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cribbing, but against the entire marking system. The method used by Harvard is antiquated and wholly unsuited to the elective system. If all students elected the same subjects and were marked by the same professors, the injustice of the system would be greatly removed. It was for a prescribed curriculum that the marking system now in use was planned. There has been a change in the main system of study, but the old garments have been put upon the new comer without regard to style...
...drones in the Harvard hive has been greatly augmented, for it cannot be denied that there was once a time in the history of the college when the appellation of "special" marked a student as one who was either too indolent or too dull to successfully complete the regular curriculum. Under the new order of things this slur can no longer be cast upon the class of students in question. It is one of Harvard's favorite boasts now-a-days that any man may come to Cambridge and find the best of instruction in any subject which...
...will long be remembered for his kindness and geniality; for his dignity under all circumstances; and for the general prosperity of the college, and for the additions that have been made to the college buildings and funds, and the advances that have been made in the curriculum under the guidance of his policy, which was neither conservative where conservatism could retard safe progress, nor radically progressive. But with his withdrawal from the presidency, he will not sever his connection with the college as an instructor. Long may he live to teach before his classes, and to impress, by his example...
...even, on questions of public interest, or feel qualified to decide on any, but the most common questions of parliamentary usage? The necessity and desirability of something that will stimulate individual investigation on all such matters, cannot fail to be recognized by every thinking student. The most extended college curriculum can furnish but a small proportion of the knowledge necessary for a liberal education, and unless special efforts are made, by the students themselves, to supplement their regular studies, many will find that a diploma may be, in many respects, simply an empty honor...
...permanent fixtures of the university. It has ever been recognized by the faculty as a valuable adjunct to the regular college work, and many a student feels that the part he has taken in its meetings has been of more practical value than any course in the college curriculum. In the past the great trouble has been the easy way with which membership to the society could be secured. To remedy this evil and to make membership mean something more than it has in the past, certain qualifications will in the future be required. For the benefit...