Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President McCosh of Princeton takes issue somewhat with this view of the case. He does not hold to the old idea of twenty years ago, which prescribed a cast-iron curriculum for the entire college course, to which all alike must conform without any latitude of choice. Neither does he believe that the average boy of 18 years is mature and discreet enough to be allowed to come and go as he pleases, or to select his own course of subjects at the very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which...
...specialist at the Universities finds himself a marked man, with a weaf of hay upon his horns; he is looked upon with mingled feelings of suspicion and pity. That there can be any knowledge outside of the curriculum of the University, or if there is, that it is of any value, is not dreamed of. The specialist who pleads in behalf of another kind of learning is considered a fanatic. "We don't want original researches," I have heard it said, "but good all-round men," that is to say, the best specimens of the crammer who have a smattering...
...better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special study at a large university will always offer a high premium to lassitude and constitutional langour it can but in few instances be pursued at Harvard to greater advantage than the regular course. The curriculum which is now offered to the regular students is so extensive that a college course can be made to comprehend all that any special course could include. Why then should special study any longer be offered to those who do not care or have not sufficient energy to regularly fit themselves...
Pres. Gilman of Johns Hopkins University has make a plea to the various colleges to consider a plan by which an inter-collegiate system of granting degrees may be adopted. Pres. Gilman has long been identified with the movement toward a gradual broadening of the curriculum of a college course, and the plan which he now puts forth is worthy of great consideration. Any radical movement which has long been needed is very likely to be carried to an excess if it is not restricted by some restraining influence. While it is of course granted that some change should...
...should be completed to "waste his time" in studying those studies for which he has a positive distaste. He claims that the training derived from such studies would be barren in its results. He claims that "a general degree should attest equality of devotion and accomplishment in a curriculum of studies, adjusted with due reference to difficulty and labor." He goes further with regard to the classics in claiming that "classical proficiency may be distinguished in a degree, as excellence in science, in medicine, in divinity, in philosophy, or in any other particular branch, is now distinguished." This is comparatively...