Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...coupled with a growing sense of the importance of the study, have succeeded in making the welfare of the English department one of the very greatest interest to every student. Only of recent years has the study of English assumed any prominence whatsoever. Fortunately, as the days of rigid curriculum work have become numbered, and as men have been allowed greater and greater freedom in shaping their work so as to supply the needs of to day, not of yesterday, the real and vital importance of this study has been recognized. That such a magazine as we propose to issue...
...selected. There are many departments in the university which are fully as flourishing as the School of Liberal Arts, the collegiate department. It has a large medical school, one of the first law schools in the country, a divinity school, and a School of All Sciences. While the curriculum of the collegiate department is to a great extent prescribed, a large choice of electives is allowed to upper classmen. The scientific department is under the instruction of the professors of the Institute of Technology. Special arrangements have been made with the Boston Public Library authorities, which give the students...
...over one hundred and eighty, or more, courses fails to find even the mention of this almost subline study. We feel sure that a course in this science, conducted in the manner of the elementary course in geology, would be one of the most popular courses in the college curriculum...
...world, together with a knowledge of Common, Constitutional, International Law, Political Economy, Logic, Principles of Criticism, English Literature, and the French and German languages, are given by Whitelaw Reid as the indispensable acquirements of a journalist. While, of course, any student can get all these studies from the curriculum as at present constituted, it would certainly be a great gain for the profession if a course could be established which would give men the same help that the moot courts of the Law School give students in law. While Harvard is in the midst of such sweeping reforms...
...profession. We understand that the faculty would not be willing to have such a course count for a degree, on the ground that such an accomplishment is not part of a liberal education. Waiving the objection, although it can apply with equal force to some courses already in the curriculum, we think that a sufficient number of men would take it as an extra to warrant the experiment. The expense, which in the minds of the authorities is the really strong argument against it, need not be great; for an expert could be hired for a sum not very large...