Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...John E. Todd in his tirade against the present curriculum at Yale, sums up his attack as follows: "A medley-a smattering of language, sciences and subjects, not one of which is there any solid foundation laid for future acquirements, mingled with a thorough acquaintance with the rules of athletic games, the composition of mixed drinks, and the mysteries of poker-such is the present college education...
...York Times declares that there is, perhaps, a trifle of British arrogance in the remark of Lord Coleridge to the students of Yale, that "Yale, in its general air, surroundings and curriculum, reminded him very much of Eton...
...kinds of modified election which I indorse. I believe that it is a good plan to give students a choice between a number of different courses each made up of studies which he is obliged to follow when he selects that course; and secondly, I believe in a fixed curriculum of required studies, to which a student may add a certain number of studies of his own choice. The idea of a curriculum without any election does not seem to me wise. A young man of sixteen or seventeen is certainly capable of choosing two or three elective branches...
This statement, when taken in connection with the late action of the faculty, makes clear beyond doubt what is intended by such action. The chairman of the first committee of Overseers, Joseph Story, contemplated changes in the college curriculum as early as 1825. The growth toward a more free election of studies has steadily progressed since then. And the near future will see the course of study purely elective. The present stand of the faculty has thus been necessarily forced on them by the gradual development of an elective system inaugurated by the first board of overseers...
...Curtailments in the choice of elective courses followed. Shortly after, a reaction set in, and in 1866 the advance toward free election was inaugurated anew, and has culminated in the action of the faculty which has recently been taken. The college has steadily grown with the enlargement of the curriculum, and each year has shown a steady rise in the scholarship of the students, until last year 77 per cent. of the freshman class received 50 per cent. or over for their year's work. If greater ease is allowed the student by the new regulations, it is compensated...