Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When Harvard, in 1841 made radical changes in the college curriculum, making Greek and Latin elective after the freshman year, the cry was raised by the more conservative colleges that this would be a death blow to the classics, claiming that students, when no longer required to take disciplinary studies, would immediately cease to pursue them. The result was quite the contrary. Greek and Latin became, and have since remained, among the most popular electives. When the work of the freshman year was made almost entirely elective, the same cry was raised by the classicists. Again, as we see, they...
...recent change in the system. It is also stated that the ultimate object of the faculty is to restrict the required theme writing to the sophomore year. From this point on, 20 pages are devoted to a sketch of the changes which have taken place in the college curriculum since 1823. From this it appears that the development of the elective system has been slowly going on ever since that remote period, though of late years greater strides have been taken toward the completion of the plan, as is shown by the fact that in 1871, only 14 years...
...opponents of Greek as a requirement for admission argue that the proposed reform in the curriculum will probably double the number of students in the university...
...disagreeableness of note-taking were the only drawback, we would have little to complain of; but the great trouble is that while industriously taking down some important portion of thought, and are henceforth unable to profit by the instructor's remarks. If, now, there were in our curriculum a voluntary course in stenography, we might be able to acquire this very useful accomplishment of writing in shorthand, without being obliged to go to the great expense and trouble of getting instruction from private teachers Few men, on entering college, are fortunate enough to have acquired the art, and fewer still...
Harvard was the first to recognize the fact that under the present conditions the old course of study was inadequate to fit a man to meet the demands of our modern civilization, and, in consequence, its curriculum was modified to correspond to the requirements of to-day by introducing the feature of a generous amount of elective work in place of the rigid course of study prescribed under the old regime...